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Preface 

\N  acknowledgement  is  due  to  £Mtss  Con- 
A.  \.  stance  ^shenden^  who^  after  having 
made  a  study  of  the  history  of  the  Christ  Church 
Library^  freely  placed  her  data  at  my  disposal, 
^Iso  to  .Mrs.  Wilda  C,  S.  Veck,  who  cata- 
logued the  library  in  191 4. 

This  Catalogue  was  carefully  collated  and 
revised  in  1 9 1 6.  Six  volumes  Jncluding four  new 
titles^  were  then  added^  which  had  been  un- 
earthed from  among  the  miscellaneous  books  in 
possession  of  the  Church,  In  1 9 1 7  another  vol- 
ume was  discovered  and  added  to  the  Catalogue, 

To-day  the  books  have  merely  an  antiquarian 
interest^  and  it  has  not  seemed  desirable  to  give 
detailed  collations.  Accordingly  the  list  is  pre- 
sented here  in  the  form  of  a  simple  title-cata- 
logue^ although  sufficiently  explicit  to  indicate  the 
character  of  the  works, 

Percival  Merritt. 

<J)(Carch,  191 7. 


After  God  had  carried  us  safe  to  New- England ^  and  wee  had 
builded  our  houses,  provided  necessaries  for  our  liveli-hood, 
rear'd  convenient  places  for  Gods  worship,  and  setled  the 
Civill  Government :  One  of  the  next  things  we  longed  for, 
and  looked  after  was  to  advance  Learningy  and  perpetuate  it 
to  Posterity;  dreading  to  leave  an  illiterate  Ministery  to  the 
Churches,  when  our  present  Ministers  shall  lie  in  the  Dust. 
And  as  wee  were  thinking  and  consulting  how  to  effeft  this 
great  Work ;  it  pleased  God  to  stir  up  the  heart  of  one  Mr. 
Harvard  (a  godly  Gentleman,  and  a  lover  of  Learning,  there 
living  amongst  us)  to  give  the  one  halfe  of  his  Estate  (it  being 
in  all  about  1 700. 1.)  towards  the  erefting  of  a  Colledge,  and 
all  his  Library  :  New  England's  First  Fruits. 

JIN  the  mental  vision  of  our  New 
]^|  England  forefathers  learning 
I  and  godliness  walked  hand  in 
I  hand.  By  no  means  the  least 
j  important  part  of  John  Har-  john 
yard's  bequest  to  the  "colledg''  which  was  ^H^ 
"ordered  to  bee  at  Newetowne''  was  his 
library  of  some  three  hundred  and  seventy 
volumes.  One  can  readily  believe,  without 
too  great  a  strain  on  the  imagination,  that 
"one  Mr.  Harvard''  would  willingly  have 

assented 


Harvard's 
uest 


2  The  Parochial  Library 

assented  to  the  diftum  of  Carlyle  that  "the 

true    University  ...  is    a    Colleftion    of 

Books."  For  after  all,  —  notwithstanding  the 

more  materialistic  and  utilitarian  tendencies 

of  the  present  day, — the  tools  of  the  scholar 

Books  the  are  books.  And  by  the  proper  employment 

Jhe^'  °       of  these  tools,  there  may  be  turned  out  either 

Scholar      |.}^g  finished   produft,   the  scholar,  or  still 

other  tools  newer,  better,  and  more  effeftive 

in  carrying  on  the  work  of  production  in  a 

constantly  widening  circle. 

Though  the  visible  manifestations  of  John 
Harvard's  bounty  disappeared,  with  one  sol- 
itary exception,  in  the  fire  which  destroyed 
Harvard  Hall  in  1764,  the  perpetual  exam- 
ple and  mental  stimulus  still  remain.  His 
foundation  was  speedily  built  on  and  aug- 
The  mented  by  others. The  results  are  to  be  found 
Libra^  everywhere  to-day  in  the  great  University 
Collections.  It  was  something  more  than  a 
mere  bit  of  sentiment  that  the  first  book  of 
the  College's  treasures  to  cross  the  thresh- 
old of  the  new  library  building,  on  its  ded- 
ication day.  Commencement  191 5,  was  the 
sole  survivor  of  Harvard's  gift,  the  intel- 
leftual  cornerstone  of  the  College  Library. 

Many 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston 


Many  of  the  well-known  libraries  of  Bos- 
ton in  the  eighteenth  century,  which  flour- 
ished while  our  little  library  was  in  process 
of  formation,  have  passed  into  other  hands. 
The  library  of  King's  Chapel,  a  gift  to  the  King  s 
church  from  London  in  1 698,  was  for  many  Libm?y 
years  in  the  custody  of,  and  is  now  owned  by, 
the  Boston  Athenaeum.  The  "Libraries  of  Libraries 
the  Mathers,"  or  to  speak  more  exaftly  the  Mothers 
remains  of  the  library  founded  by  Richard 
Mather  and  added  to  in  time  by  Increase, 
Cotton,  and  Samuel  Mather,  now  exist  in 
part  on  the  shelves  of  the  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society,  and  in  part  in  the  American 
Antiquarian  Society  of  Worcester.  The  col- 
lection of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Prince,  after  Fate  of 

1  •  •  11  r    i_       T)    -^      the  Prince 

havmg  experienced  the  ravages  or  the  tJrit-  coiieaion 
ish  soldiery  in  the  eighteenth  century,  and 
of  antiquarian  book-colleftors  in  the  nine- 
teenth century,  is  now  peacefully  and  per- 
manently established  in  the  Boston  Public 
Library. 

Perhaps  the  most  unique  feature  of  the 
Christ  Church  library  is  that  it  remains 
to-day  within  the  sheltering  walls  (of  the 
oldest  church  edifice  in  Boston)  which  have 

guarded 


4  The  Parochial  Library 

guarded  it  since  its  inception  nearly  two  cen- 
turies ago.  While  the  details  are  somewhat 
meagre,  yet  its  beginning  and  development 
can  easily  be  traced  from  the  records  of  the 
church  itself,  and  from  contemporaneous 
records. 
Rev.  In  September,  1722,  the  Rev.  Timothy 

JXr^^    Cutler  (born  in  Charlestown  in  1683,  ^"^ 
graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1701, 
subsequently  a  Congregational  clergyman  at 
Stratford,  Conn., and  at  this  time  theReftor, 
or  President,  of  Yale  College) ,  together  with 
six  of  his  associates  either  in  the  ministry  or 
Abandons  in  the  collcgc,  announced  to  the  Trustees 
ga°donai-     of  the  collcgc  "  that  some  of  them  doubted 
'^"^  the  validity,  and  the  rest  were  more  fully 

persuaded  of  the  invalidity  of  Presbyterian 
ordination  in  opposition  to  the  Episcopal." 
Three  of  the  seven  bowed  before  the  storm 
which  followed  this  avowal  and  returned  to 
their  allegiance,  but  Messrs.  Cutler,  John- 
son, Brown,  and  Wetmore  maintained  their 
And  with-  ground  and  the  inevitable  separation  from 
from  Yale  ^^c  collcgc  or  their  ministerial  charges  fol- 

College         lowed. 

Within  a  few  weeks  the  members  of  the 

committee 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston 


committee  which  had  been  appointed  "for 
taking  in  subscriptions  to  build  a  new  house  The  new 
for  the  Worship  of  God  at  the  North  end  at  the' 
of  Boston,   (our  present  building   [King's  "^^^ 
Chapel]  not  being  capable  to  contain  the 
people  of  the  Church,)"  addressed  a  letter  to 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Cutler  expressing  the  desire 
that  he  should  remove  to  Boston  and  be- 
come the  Reftor  of  the  new  church  at  the 
North  End,  —  Christ  Church.  They  pro- 
posed to  pay  his  expenses  to  London  for  the 
purpose  of  obtaining  ordination,  and  to  pro- 
vide for  the  maintenance  of  his  family  dur- 
ing his  absence.  They  also  assured  him  that 
they  would  "Send  our  humble  petition  to 
Our  Right  Rev.  Diocesan,  My  Lord  Bishop  Mr.  Cut- 
of  London,  that  after  the  Church  that  is  now  ZtnltT 


to  the 
Bishop 


designed  to  be  eredted,  he  would  be  gra- 
ciously pleased  to  grant  his  License  to  you  of  London 
to  preach  in,  the  people  here  being  willing 
to  maintain  you."  In  addition  to  providing 
for  Mr.  Cutler's  expenses  they  offered  to  pay 
for  the  passage  to  England  of  two  of  his 
associates,  Mr.  Daniel  Brown,  a  tutor  in  Yale 
College,  and  the  Rev.  Samuel  Johnson,  for- 
merly a  tutor  also,  then  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational 


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gregational  Church  at  West  Haven,  Conn., 
and  later  to  become  the  first  President  of 
King's,  now  Columbia,  College. 

The  offer  of  the  committee  having  been 
accepted.  Cutler  and  his  tv^o  companions  set 
Departure  sail  for  England  in  November,  1722,  and 
England  Tcached  London  toward  the  end  of  Decem- 
ber. Within  a  few  weeks  after  their  arrival 
Mr.  Cutler  fell  ill  of  the  small-pox,  but  for- 
tunately escaped  death.  By  the  middle  of 
March  he  had  entirely  recovered,  and  on  the 
last  day  of  the  month  the  three  companions 
His  Ordi-  received  Episcopal  ordination  at  the  hands 
of  the  Bishop  of  Norwich.  Five  days  later 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Brown  became  seriously  ill  of 
what  proved  to  be  small-pox,  and  in  a  week's 
time  he  was  dead.  These  two  cases  illustrate 
in  a  striking  manner  the  dangers  and  vicis- 
situdes to  which  clergymen  were  exposed  by 
reason  of  the  necessity,  prior  to  the  Revolu- 
tion, of  crossing  the  ocean  to  obtain  orders, 
for  unfortunately  they  were  by  no  means 
infrequent  occurrences. 

During  their  stay  in  England  Mr.  Cutler 
was  honored  with  the  degree  of  S.T.D.,  and 
Mr.  Johnson  with  that  of  M. A.,  from  both 

the 


nation 


in  (^hrist  Churchy  Boston  7 

the   Universities  of  Oxford  and  of  Cam-  Degrees 
bridge.  Their  New  Haven  associate,  Mr.  ford  and 
Wetmore,  arrived  in  London  early  in  July,  ^^\ 
and  Dr.  Cutler  and  Mr.  Johnson  w^erepresent 
at  his  ordination  to  the  priesthood  a  fewdays 
before  they  started  on  their  homeward  voy- 
age. Dr.  Cutler  reached  Boston  in  Septem- 
ber, 1723,  and  on  December  29  preached 
the  first  sermon  in  Christ  Church. 

Like  most  of  the  Episcopal  clergymen  in 
New  England  before  the  Revolution,  Dr. 
Cutler  came  to  his  charge  in  the  capacity  of 
a  Missionary  of  the  Society  for  the  Propa-  society 
gation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts.  This  Propaga- 
implied  that  while  the  local  church  called  t^onofthe 

^    ^  ^  Gospel 

and  induced  the  clergyman,  yet  if  he  was 
accepted  by  the  Society,  at  the  request  of 
the  church,  as  one  of  its  Missionaries  in 
foreign  parts,  the  Society  paid  him  an  an- 
nual stipend,  varying  in  amounts  from  ^^3^ 
to  £/]o^  furnished  him  with  books  both  for 
a  parochial  library  and  for  distribution,  and 
in  general  exercised  a  certain  supervision 
which  lasted  as  long  as  the  church  received 
the  benefa6lions  of  the  Society.  The  Reftor 
in  his  capacity  as  Missionary  was  expedled 

to 


8  The  Parochial  Library 

to  report  to  the  Society  semi-annually  as  to 
the  condition  of  affairs  in  his  parish,  both 
spiritual  and  temporal,  but  mainly  with  re- 
gard to  the  former.  One  of  the  objefts  of  the 
Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel 
was  set  forth  in  the  report  of  the  Society  in 
1703,  published  in  London  in  1704,  as  the 
"sending  over  selefl:  Libraries  for  the  Im- 
provement of  the  Clergy,  as  well  as  practical 
Treatises  for  the  Edification  of  the  Laity/' 
This  branch  of  the  Society's  work  was  the 
result  of  the  efforts  of  one  of  its  incorpora- 
Rev.  tors,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Bray,  who  for  many 
BrayTnd  y^ars  was  deeply  interested  in  the  establish- 
his  Libra-  nient  of  libraries  to  meet  the  necessities  of 

nes 

clergymen  in  England  and  Wales  as  well  as 
in  the  Colonies. 

That  Christ  Church  was  promptly  pro- 
vided with  one  of  the  Society's  libraries  is 
shown  by  a  formal  report  which  probably 
accompanied  Dr.  Cutler's  first  letter  to  the 
Secretary,  dated  January  4,  1724,  six  days 
after  his  first  sermon  in  the  new  church.  A 
series  of  questions  was  propounded  to  the 
Missionaries  which  they  were  expedted  to 
answer  in  detail.  One  of  the  questions  was: 

"Have 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  'Boston 


"Have  you  a  Parochial  Library  ?  If  you  have, 
are  the  Books  preserved  and  kept  in  good 
condition?  Have  you  any  particular  rules 
and  orders  for  the  preserving  of  them?  Are 
those  rules  and  orders  duly  observed?"  To  The 
which  Dr.  Cutler  replied :  "  The  Honorable  ofTe"^"^ 
Society  hath  furnished  us  with  a  Library  to  ^'^^^^y 
the  value  of  ^lo  Sterl.  under  my  partic- 
ular care."  In  his  letter  the  Do6lor,  going 
more  fully  into  the  subject  of  the  condi- 
tion of  the  church  and  parish,  wrote:  "but 
yet  as  we  are  the  love  of  truth  the  many 
good  examples  we  have  of  the  power  of  our 
Church's  doftrine  and  communion  (though 
God  knows  we  have  too  exceptions)  &  the 
great  relish  our  people  have  of  the  Excel- 
lent writings  of  the  Church  of  England,  vaiue  of 
both  do6lrine  praflical  and  controversial  are  [ngs'of  the 
very  successful  to  weaken  or  overcome  our  church  of 
strongest  prejudices  &  our  young  people  are  Divines 
hereby  brought  to  a  favor  for  our  Church, 
and  many  of  them  resolutely  come  to  her 
communion    and   others  are  kept  from  it 
principally  from  an  awe  of  their  Parents  and 
a  prospefl  of  frowns  from  those  they  de- 
pend on.'' 

Although 


lo  The  Parochial  Library 

Although  we  have  no  specific  informa- 
tion as  to  the  contents  of  this  first  instalment 
of  our  Library,  we  can  still  draw  reasonably 
accurate  conclusions  as  to  what  some  of  the 
books  were.  The  portion  of  the  letter  just 
quoted  shows  the  value  which  Dr.  Cutler 
placed  on  the  "Excellent  writings  of  the 
Church  of  England"  in  influencing  Inde- 
pendents to  come  within  her  fold.  He  him- 
self, together  with  Samuel  Johnson,  had  just 
passed  through  this  experience.  What  had 
influenced  them  might  reasonably  be  ex- 
pe6ted  to  influence  others. 

After  the  Rev.  Mr.  Johnson  gave  up  his 
tutorship  in  Yale  College  in  171 9,  and  ac- 
cepted the  pastorate  of  the  church  at  West 
Mr.  John-  Havcn,  he  Compiled  alist  of  the  books  which 
ofVooks  he  read.  At  the  head  of  the  list  stood  the  Book 
of  Common  Prayer,  whose  beautiful  lit- 
urgy aff^efted  him  as  it  has  countless  others. 
Then  came  Potter's  Discourse  on  Church  Gov- 
ernment^ Ec hard's  Church  History^  Hooker's 
Ecclesiastical  Polity^  followed  by  the  works 
of  the  English  divines,  Barrow,  Bull,  Bur- 
net, Pearson,Tillotson,  and  others.  The  three 
titles  just  quoted,  and  works  of  the  five 

clergymen 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  1 1 

clergymen  enumerated,  were  all  in  our  Li- 
brary in  1752  as  they  are  to-day,  and  doubt- 
less they  were  there  also  when  Dr.  Cutler 
made  his  first  report  to  the  Society.  In  all 
probability,  since  only  a  little  more  than 
three  months  had  elapsed  between  his  re- 
turn to  Boston  and  his  letter  to  the  Secre- 
tary, he  had  selefted  them  himself  while  in 
London  and  brought  them  over  with  him. 
A  small  quarto  volume,  published  in  Lon- 
don in  1 74 1,  entitled  A  Colle5iion  of  Papers 
Printed  by  Order  of  the  Society  for  the  Propa- 
gation of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts^  contains 
"A  Catalogue  of  the  Missionaries  Library,  The 
&c."  This  catalogue  comprises  a  long  list  of  of^the°^"^ 
titles,  mainly  theological  works  by  the  best  ^enerabie 
English  writers,  from  which  the  Mission- 
aries were  supplied  with  the  books  w^hich 
seemed  best  adapted  for  their  needs  and  those 
of  their  churches.  In  that  portion  of  the  Col- 
leBion  of  Papers  which  contains  the  "Orders 
Relating  to  the  Missionaries"  it  was  pro- 
vided :  "That  a  Sum  not  exceeding  10^  be 
allowed  to  such  Missionaries, as  shall  be  sent 
over  by  the  Society,  to  Places  where  there 
are  no  Libraries,  towards  buying  any  of 

the 


12  The  Parochial  Library 

the  Books  mentioned  in  the  Society's  Cata- 
logue/' 

That  the  libraries  sent  to  the  Colonies 
vicissi-  were  liable  to  some  vicissitudes  is  shown  by 
Library^  the  reply,  in  April,  1724,  of  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Mossom,  Missionary  at  Marblehead,  to  the 
regulation  question  of  the  Society  concern- 
ing the  Library:  "I  have  no  Parochial  Li- 
brary. The  Society's  ^\o  worth  of  Books, 
sent  by  my  Predecessor  were  not  here  when 
I  came,  except  6  which  he  left  &  those  I 
keep  in  good  order." 

In  Dr.  Cutler's  report  to  the  Society  in 

October,  1727,  he  wrote  that:  "One  great 

The         comfort  under  the  pressures  w^^  the  Church 

concern     sustaius,  is  the  tender  concern  of  the  Society 

for  the      for  us  which  wc  thankfully  acknowledge. 

Church  r~^       ^  T      1  J  J 

and  earnestly  pray  God  to  prosper.  1  also  add 
my  particular  acknowledgements  for  those 
Bibles  &  good  Books  which  the  Society  has 
ordered  me,  and  shall  faithfully  use  my  best 
prudence  in  the  distribution  of  them  when 
they  come  to  hand."  These  "good  Books" 
were  clearly  designed  for  use  among  the 
Doftor's  congregation, present  andprospec- 
tive.  In  the  same  letter,  and  evidently  in- 
tended 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  13 

tended  as  a  general  reply  to  the  Society's 
formal  question  regarding  the  library  which 
was  quoted  above,  he  wrote:  "There  is  no 
Library  peculiar  to  my  Parish.  [By  this  he 
means  no  general  library  within  the  limits 
of  what  in  England  would  have  constituted 
a  parish  contributary  to  his  church.]  I  have 
indeed  a  Catalogue  of  Books  given  to  my 
Church,  which  we  are  at  liberty  to  sell  and 
convert  into  money  when  we  please.  The 
Society  knows  what  Books  I  have  received 
from  it  &  am  accountable  for."  And  now  for 
a  period  of  years  there  is  practically  nothing 
to  be  learned  regarding  the  Library. 

But  in   September,    1740,  ecclesiastical  Arrival 
Boston  was  shaken  to  its  foundations  by  the  whitT^^ 
advent  of  the  Rev.  George  Whitefield,  then  ^^^"^ 
a  young  man  twenty-five  years  of  age.  The 
consideration  of  this  subjeft  need  not  con- 
cern  us  here  except  in  its  reaftion  on  the 
Library  and  on  Dr.  Cutler's  desire  for  books 
which  might  counteraft  Whitefield's  teach- 
ing. Suffice  it  to  say  that  Whitefield  was 
more  enthusiastically  received  in  general  by 
the  Congregational  clergymen  than  by  the 
Anglicans,  who  could  hardly  be  expected  to 

view 


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The  Parochial  Library 


view  with  the  same  complacency  as  the  In- 
dependents the  tone  of  his  teachings  or  his 
attempts  to  reform  the  Church  of  England 
from  within.  In  December,  1 740,  Dr.  Cutler 
expressed  himself  to  the  Society  as  follows: 
"I  hope  the  Fury  and  Ferment  is  subsid- 
ing, and  that  we  shall  at  length  be  tolera- 
bly sweetened  towards  one  another.  What 
may  hinder  it  are  the  enthusiastic  Notions 
very  much  kindled  among  us  and  like  to  be 
propagated  by  his  Writings,  dispersed  every 
where,  with  Antinomianism  revived,  and 
I  fear  also.  Infidel  and  Libertine  Principles, 
which  some  express  a  particular  fondness  for 
at  this  time.  Our  labours  among  our  people 
would  be  very  much  assisted  by  suitable 
Books  on  these  subjefts,  and  the  Society's 
bounty  in  this  kind  never  wants  good  efFefts, 
tho'  not  so  large  as  good  men  wish." 

The  Dodlor  evidently  received  the  assist- 
ance which  he  desired,  for  in  September 
of  the  following  year  he  wrote:  "The  So- 
ciety do  much  oblige  their  Missionaries  by 
the  good  books  they  send  them,  especially 
those  occasioned  by  the  disorders  and  con- 
fusions  M^  Whitefield   and    his    Disciples 

have 


The 

EfFeas  of 
White- 
field's 
Writings 


Books 
sent  to 
counter- 
aft  the 
Methodist 
Doftrines 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  15 

have  wrought  among  us."  And  again  in  his 
report  to  the  Secretary  under  date  of  June 
30, 1 742,  he  said :  "Not  long  since  I  received 
your  very  kind  letter  of  Feb^  8^^  w^ith  a  Par- 
cel of  Books  .  .  .  those  against  Enthusiasm 
are  very  seasonable  and  have  had  very  good 
efFedls."  Six  months  later  Dr.  Cutler  recurs 
again  to  this  subjeft,  and  after  some  refer- 
ences to  "enthusiasm"  and  to  "Itinerants" 
writes:  "Order,  Peace,  Justice,  and  Rela- 
tive Duties  become  very  low  prized ;  Rel- 
ligion  is  corrupted  in  Theory  &  Practice  Dr.  Cutler 
&  we  fear  many  will  be  tempted  to  lay  all 
aside  —  Books  of  this  unhappy  tendency. 
Books  Calvinistic,  Enthusiastical  &  Antino- 
mian  do  abound;  the  Press  here  never  had 
so  full  employ  before,  nor  were  People  ever 
so  busy  in  reading.  Our  Antidotes  to  them 
are  mostly  from  Dissenters,  without  proper 
guards  and  limitations  and  consequently 
one  error  is  assaulted  by  another.  I  therefore 
humbly  wish  for  the  assistance  of  the  hon-  The 
orable  Society  in  Books  adapted  to  our  pres-  as°ked  for 
ent  case.''  Again  the  Society  responded  to  Assistance 
the  call,  for  in  June,  1 743,  the  Do6lor  wrote 
the  Secretary : "  Sir,  Since  I  sent  my  acknow- 
ledgements 


1 6  The  Parochial  Library 

ledgements  of  the  Society's  great  generosity 
to  me,  I  received  the  Books  whereof  you 
advised  me  in  your  letter,  and  now  return 
my  humblest  thanks  for  the  same.  I  hope 
the  Society  will  forgive  me  if  I  add.  That 
some  Bibles  of  a  larger  size  might  prove 
more  useful  to  persons  of  a  weak  sight,  and 
Bibles  and  that  a  larger  quantity  of  such  excellent  prac- 
sent  ''^^^  tic^l  Books  as  they  have  sent  over  will  be 
of  immediate  Benefit,  whenever  they  shall 
please  to  send  them/' 

What  accessions  to  the  library  itself  may 
have  been  received  during  these  three  years 
cannot  even  be  conjectured.  But  among  the 
"  excellent  pracflical  Books  "  which  the  Soci- 
ety sent  over  for  general  distribution  we  may 
safely  conclude  that  there  were  some  ap- 
propriate selections  from  the  list  of  "Books 
allowed  for  Churches''  and  "Catalogue  of 
small  Trails,  &c.,"  which  appeared  in  the 
Catalogue  of  the  S.P.G.  Library  published 
in  its  ColleBion  of  Papers^  ^741  •  Such,  for  in- 
stance, as  "Common  Prayer  Books  with  39 
Articles,  and  Ordinals;"  "Faith  and  Prac- 
tice of  a  Church  oi  England-Man ;''  "Church 
Catechism  explained;"  "Guide  of  a  Chris- 


tian  ; 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  "Boston  17 


tian  \'  and  the  "  Common  Prayer  Book  best 
Companion." 

In  1746  we  find  our  Library  preparing 
to  receive  some  important  additions.  For  on 
December  26  of  that  year  Dr.  Cutler  wrote 
the  Secretary:  "My  Church,  with  myself, 
are  very  sensible  of  the  Rev^.  M^  Dechair's  Rev.  Mr. 
goodness  in  the  Books  already  presented  by  cSof^^ 
him,  and  the  addition  he  designs  to  them  ^°*^^^ 
for  a  Parochial  Library  in  this  Town;  and 
of  the  Society's  goodness  in  allotting  that 
benefit  to  my  Parish.  We  shall  shew  our 
gratitude  in  providing  a  convenient  place 
for  them  ;  and  I  can  promise  for  myself,  and 
hope,  for  my  successors,  the  greatest  care  to 
preserve  the  Books  from  hurt  and  embezzle- 
ment, and  to  make  the  best  advantages  we 
can  of  such  a  pious  Donation." 

Fully  a  year  and  a  half  must  have  elapsed 
before  the  Library  received  the  benefit  of 
the  "pious  Donation.'' In  December,  1747,  Sometime 
Dr.  Cutler  in  his  semi-annual  report  to  the  before 
Secretary  was  still  hoping  for  the  safe  arrival  they  arrive 
in  due  time  of  Mr.  Dechair's  books.  But  not 
until  the  early  fall  of  1748  do  we  find  the 
first  record  of  their  appearance.  "At  A  Ves- 

tery 


1 8  The  Parochial  Library 

tery  Meeting  in  C.  Church  Oft'*  y^  4^*^  1748 
.  .  .  Voted  That  there  be  a  Cass  Made  for 
y^  Books  Latly  came  from  England.  And  to 
fix  the  Same  in  a  proper  plass  in  y^  Vestery 
Accordin  To  y^  Advice  of  the  Rev.  Do6ter 
Cutler.''  In  the  first  Account  Book  of  the 
church,  under  date  of  Oftober  10,  1748,  in 
a  record  of  cash  paid  to  the  sexton,  is  this 
item  :  "To  porterage  for  Books  12/-."  And 
on  January  23,  1749,  among  the  disburse- 
charges  mcnts,  we  find  "Ditto  [Cash  Paid]  To  Capt". 
onTc-^  Delarue  for  Charge's  on  Books  8.-7.-8." 
the"Giff  Ov^^  ^  y^^^  l^t^i" — it  v^ould  seem  as  if  in 
those  days  accounts  v^ere  slower  both  in 
presentation  and  payment — comes  the  evi- 
dence that  Dr.  Cutler's  promise  to  provide 
a  convenient  place  for  the  books  had  been 
carried  out.  "April  16  1750  To  Thomas 
Stevens's  Acc^  Battening  y^  Inside  y^  Roof. 
Clock  &  Book  Case.  191. -5.-0." 

On  the  very  day  on  which  is  recorded  the 
payment  for  the  bookcase,  there  occurred 
in  Christ  Church  an  event,  quite  common- 
place in  itself,  but  which  had  a  far-reach- 
ing effefl:  in  its  relation  to  our  knowledge 
of  the  Library  as  it  then  was.  At  the  an- 
nual 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  19 

nual  Proprietors'  Meeting  in  Christ  Church 
on  Easter  Monday,  April  16,  1750,  Giles  Giles 
Tidmarsh,  proprietor  of  pew  No.  32,  was 
chosen  a  Vestryman.  He  was  reelefted  in 
1 75 1 ,  chosen  Junior  Warden  in  1 75  2,  Senior 
Warden  in  175  3,  and  was  again  a  Vestryman 
in  1754,  after  which  time  his  name,  as  one 
of  the  officials,  disappears  from  the  Vestry 
Records.  We  can  surmise  that  Mr.  Tidmarsh 
was  a  careful,  methodical  man  with  a  due 
sense  of  his  responsibilities  as  an  officer  of  the 
Church.  For  in  the  year  when  he  became 
Junior  Warden,  John  Pulling  being  the 
Senior  Warden  at  that  time,  one  of  the  first 
aftsof  the  two  officers  was  to  re-inventory  And  his 
the  property  of  the  Church  for  which  they  ^^^^^""^ 
were  responsible,  that  is,  the  Bibles,  Prayer- 
Books,  Communion  Plate,  Altar  linen,  &c., 
employed  in  the  services  of  the  Church. 
The  last  previous  inventory  had  been  taken 
in  April,  173  5,  and  succeeding  Wardens  had 
simply  made  a  general  acknowledgement 
in  the  Account  Book  of  the  receipt  of  the 
property  from  the  "late  upper  Church  War- 
den,'*  referring  to  this  inventory  and  not- 
ing either  the  alterations  in,  or  subtra6lions 

from. 


20  The  Parochial  Library 

from,  the  list  since  the  time  of  the  receipt 
given  by  their  predecessors.  But  Messrs. 
Tidmarsh  and  Pulling  made  a  new  and  care- 
fully detailed  list,  which  they  recorded 
under  date  of  April  i  5,  1752.  We  give  the 
credit  to  Mr.  Tidmarsh,  not  because  it  is 
impossible  for  any  one  to  gainsay  it,  but  on 
account  of  a  contemporary  piece  of  evidence 
as  to  his  carefulness  and  appreciation  of  his 
obligations.  For  at  about  the  same  time  he 
also  made  an  inventory  of  the  library,  which 
was  duly  entered  in  the  Account  Book 
The  Tid-  under  the  heading. :  "  Library  Belonging  to 
Cata'iogue  Christ  Church  ^.  Catalogue  taken  by  Giles 
Tidmarsh  28^^  &  29^^  August,  1752."  (See 
Appendix  A) 

Although  he  could  hardly  be  regarded  as 
an  expert  cataloguer,  still  his  simple  title- 
catalogue,  with  the  number  of  volumes  set 
down  opposite  each  title,  served  its  purpose 
very  well  as  a  means  of  identification  and 
a  guide  to  the  preservation  of  the  colleftion 
The  Value  in  its  entirety.  To-day  it  is  particularly  val- 
Cataiogue  uable  as  showing  what  the  charafter  of  the 
Library  was  in  its  early  days,  what  books 
have  been  lost  to  it  since  1752,  and,  by  a 

comparison 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  2  i 

comparison  with  our  recent  catalogue  of 
1 916,  some  at  least  of  the  accessions  up  to 
April  19, 1775.  It  recorded  fifty-three  titles,  Number 
represented    by    eighty-four    volumes,    of  recTrded 
which  twenty-one  were  folios,  six  quartos, 
and  fifty-seven  o6lavos.  Of  these,  thirty  titles 
and  forty-nine  volumes  are  to  be  found  in 
the  Library  to-day.  Among  the  authors  were 
those  who  have  already  been  cited  as  hav- 
ing aroused  the  interest  of  Dr.  Cutler  and 
the  Rev.  Mr.Johnson,  before  they  felt  them- 
selves impelled  by  their  consciences  to  give 
up  their  allegiance  to  the  Congregational  Some  of 
Church,  —  Hooker,  Potter,  Echard,  and  the  thors "" 
rest. 

Among  the  books  in  the  list  of  folios  were 
two  which  seem  perhaps  a  little  out  of  har- 
mony with  the  rest  of  the  Library,  "Capt. 
Stevens's  History  of  Spain''  2iV\d.  "Marcellini 
Roman  History^  Latin."  Capt.  Stevens's  His- 
tory has  disappeared,  but  the  Marcellinus 
still  remains.  Curiously  enough  in  point  of 
disappearances  the  folios  have  suffered  rela- 
tively more  than  the  oftavos,  although  their 
format  would  seem  more  likely  to  have  pro- 
tected them  against  abstraction,  legitimate 

or 


2  2  The  Parochial  Library 

or  otherwise.  One  of  the  quartos  which  is 
The  missing,    catalogued    as   "Common    place 

Common-  book/'  Stimulates  the  curiosity  at  first  from 
P^^^^  the  possibility  of  its  having  been  in  manu- 
script, and  perhaps  containing  contempo- 
raneous records  or  comments  of  particular 
interest.  But  this  idea  is  speedily  dispelled 
and  disappointment  assuaged  by  the  dis- 
covery on  the  verso  of  the  fore-title  of  the 
Cambridge  Concordance^  1689,  of  an  adver- 
tisement by  the  publishers  stating  that: 

THERE  is  lately  Printed,  A  Common-place  Book  to 
the  Holy  Bible,  or  the  Scriptures  Sufficiency  Pra6ti- 
cally  Demonstrated.  Wherein  whatsoever  is  contain'd 
in  Scripture,  Respeding  DoSirine^  Worships  or  Manners^ 
is  reduced  to  its  Proper  Head :  Weighty  Cases  Resolved, 
Truths  confirmed,  Difficult  Texts  Illustrated  and  Ex- 
plained by  others  more  Plain.  London  Printed  for  Awn- 
sham  and  yohn  Churchill^  at  the  Black  Swan  in  Paternos- 
ter-Row. 

Again,  for  a  number  of  years  following 
the  compilation  of  the  Tidmarsh  catalogue, 
we  are  without  definite  information  concern- 
Dr.  Cutler  iug  the  Library.  Dr.  Cutler  was  growing  old, 
tateX^'  and  for  some  nine  years  prior  to  his  death 
in  August,  1765,  was  practically  incapaci- 
tated for  clerical  duties.  At  a  meeting  held 

on 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  23 

on  January  8,  1758,  the  Proprietors  agreed 
"that  considering  the  Age  &  Infirmity  of 
the  Rev'd.  Dodl^  Cutler  and  on  that  Ac- 
count the  Uncertain  Supply  of  this  Church 
with  an  Officiating  Minister,"  they  should 
get " some  Suitable  Person ''  as  an  assistant  to 
Dr.  Cutler.  They  also  voted  "that  the  Rev'd. 
M^  Marmaduke  Brown  be  first  applied  to 
for  said  purpose."  Mr.  Brown  served  for  a 
time  in  this  capacity,  but  on  Odlober  i  5, 
1759,  the  Proprietors  voted  to  ask  Mr.  James  Rev. 
Greaton  of  Roxbury  to  become  assistant  crTaton 
to  Dr.  Cutler.  Mr.  Greaton  took  orders  and  becomes 

his  Curate 

served  the  Church  as  Curate  until  the  death 
of  Dr.  Cutler,  when  he  succeeded  him  as 
Reftor. 

By  1767  the  Church  had  decided  to  seek 
another  minister,  and  in  the  seledlion  of  its 
third  Reftor  proceeded  along  lines  very 
similar  to  those  followed  in  the  choice  of 
the  first.  The  Rev.  Mather  Byles,  Jr.  (born  Advent  of 
in  Boston  in  1735,  graduated  from  Harvard  ByWjr. 
College  in  the  Class  of  175 1),  son  of  Doftor 
Mather  Byles,  pastor  of  the  Hollis  Street 
Church,  was  at  that  time  a  Congregational 
clergyman  settled  over  the  church  in  New 

London, 


24  The  Parochial  Library 

London,  Conn.  But  like  Cutler  and  John- 
son, more  than  forty  years  before,  he  had 
become  convinced  ofthe  superiority  of  Epis- 
copal  ordination    and    readily  assented    to 
the  invitation  of  the  Proprietors  of  Christ 
Church  to  become  their  Re6lor.  It  is  per- 
haps worth  noting  here  the  sturdy  Ameri- 
christ        canism  of  the  Proprietors  of  Christ  Church 
prefers       ^^  shown  in  their  repeated  choice  of  native- 
ciergy-      \yoxn  clerevmcn,  v^ho  had  been  reared  in  the 

men  or  ^  O-'  ' 

native        independent  atmosphere  of  New  England 

birth  ^         ^  •  T  T  T^  1 

Congregationalism,    in    December,    1774, 
Ezra  Stiles   in  his  diary  referred  to  "Dr. 
Biles .  . .  little  Flock  which  are  more  for  Lib- 
erty than  any  Episco.  Congregation  north 
of  Maryland.''  Mr.  Byles  both  received  and 
accepted  the  call  in  the  month  of  April, 
Mr.  Byies    1 768,  and  within  a  short  time  was  on  his 
t'o  London  ^^7  ^^  Loudon  equipped  with  letters  of  pre- 
forOrdi-    sentation  to  the  Bishop  of  London,  and  of 

nation  ^  ^  ' 

recommendation  to  the  Society  as  one  of  its 
Missionaries. 

He  By   the   end   of  September,    1768,  Mr. 

Boston  °  Byles  (his  Oxford  degree  of  S.T.D.  was  not 
conferred  until  1770)  had  returned  to  Bos- 
ton,   and    almost   coincidentally    with    his 

arrival 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  25 

arrival  the  history  of  the  Library  can  be  re- 
sumed. At  a  meeting  held  06tober  4,  1768, 
the  Vestry  voted:  "That  the  Reverend  M'"  Takes 
Byles  be  desired  to  take  the  Care  of  the  Li-  ^tUl 
brary  and  that  he  have  a  key  to  the  Vestry  library 
Room."  Now  there  was  a  particular  fitness 
in  this  request  that  Mr.  Byles  should  take 
charge  of  the  Library,  for,  in  addition  to  his 
responsibility  with  regard  to  it  by  reason  of 
his  position  as  a  Missionary  of  the  Society 
for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel,  he  was  His  expe- 
what  might  be  termed,  for  those  times  at  all  as^L^ibra 
events,  an  expert  librarian,  having  served  as  ^^^^f^^^ 
Librarian  of  Harvard  College  for  the  years  College 

1755-1757- 

Evidences  of  his  attention  to  the  duties 

committed  to  him  soon  become  manifest. 

At  a  vestry-meeting  held  Oftober  27,  at 

which  he  was  present,  it  was  voted:  "That  church  at 

the  Church  Wardens  be  and   hereby   are  je^s'ired  Vo 

diredled  to  write  to  the  Rev^  M^  Wiswell  {5^"!"^ 

Books  to 

of  Casco  Bay  Desiring  him  to  Returne  to  chHst 
this  Church  any  Books  he  or  his  Church 
has  belonging  to  this  Church,  Particularly  a 
large  Bibble."  Now  the  church  at  Casco  Bay 
or  Falmouth  (now Portland,  Maine), organ- 
ized 


2  6  The  Parochial  Library 

ized  in  1 763  with  the  Rev.  John  Wiswall  as 
the  first  Reftor,  apparently  should  have  been 
well  supplied  with  books.  For  Mr.  Wiswall, 
writing  from  London  in  December,  1764, 
had  informed  the  Wardens  and  Vestry  that 
the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gos- 
pel, "Willing  to  encourageyou  in  your  laud- 
able and  pious  undertaking  they  on  the 
receit  of  the  bond  will  furnish  your  Church 
with  handsome  Prayer  Books  and  Bible,  a 
Parochial  Library,  and  from  time  to  time 
send  handsome  presents  of  small  Bibles, 
Prayer  Books  and  other  books  of  devotion 
to  be  distributed  among  the  parishioners,  as 
there  may  be  occasion  for  them." 

It  may  be,  however,  that  they  had  been 

as  oblivious  to  the  forwarding  of  the  bond 

of  which  Mr.  Wiswall  wrote,  as  they  were 

to  the  request  from  the  Wardens  of  Christ 

TheVes-  Church.  For  on  Odlober  5,  1769,  the  Ves- 

LTecond   try  found  it  necessary  to  pass  another  vote  : 

Demand    "^hat  the  Church  Warden  be  direded  to 

to  Fal- 
mouth     write  to  the  minister  and  church  wardens  of 

the  Church  at  Falmouth,  requesting  them 

to   returne  the  Bibble  lent  them  by  this 

Church  Immediately." 

In 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  27 


In  the  interval  between  the  recording  of 
these  two  votes  Mr.  Byles  must  have  dis-  Mr.  Byies 
covered  that  there  were  more  hiatuses  on  thrt°more 
the  shelves  of  the  Library,  and  we  can  con-  ^°°^^  ^^^ 

.  .  missing 

jedure  that,  with  the  aid  of  the  Tidmarsh 
catalogue,  he  may  have    checked  up  the 
books  which  should  have  been  there.  At 
a  meeting  of  the  Vestry  held  July  5,  1769, 
at  which  Mr.  Byles  was  present,  it  was: 
"Agreed  that  an  advertisement  to  [be]  in- 
serted in  the  News  Paper  desireing  all  per- 
sons that  are  possest  of  any  Books  belonging 
to  this  Church's  Library  to  returne  them." 
In  accordance  with  this  vote  the  following  An  Ad- 
advertisement  appeared  in  the  Boston  Even-  mentTn 
ing  Post  in  the  issues  of  July  31,  August  7  ^^^fjj°'' 
and  14,  1769  :  Post 

WHEREAS  a  Number  of  BOOKS  belonging  to 
the  Library  at  Christ-Church  in  this  Town,  are 
missing;  those  Persons  who  have  them  in  Possession 
are  desired  to  return  them  immediately. 

What  the  result  of  this  advertisement  may 
have  been  cannot  now  be  determined.  The 
Records  reveal  nothing  as  to  the  response  Uncer- 
either  to  the  newspaper  appeal,  or  to  the  Response^ 
second   communication   to   the  Falmouth 

Church. 


2  8  The  Parochial  Library 

Church.  Although  it  is  known  that  at  va- 
rious times  the  Church  loaned  both  Bibles 
and  Prayer-Books,  in  one  instance  only  is 
there  any  evidence  of  their  return.  In  the 
Vestry  Records  may  be  found  this  entry : 

"-"Bostonjune  lo,  1768,  Received  of  Thomas 
Ivers  one  large  Common  Prayer  book  be- 
longing to  Christ  Church,  w^hich  I  promise 
to  returne  to  said  Church  in  good  order. 

E.  Kneeland." 

Below  the  receipt  is  written  [Return  d)^  and 

Although    Mr.  Kneeland's  signature  is  cancelled  by 

Kneeiand    ^^^  strokcs  of  the  pen.  Thomas  Ivers,  then 

jPmTr^    the   "upper  Church  Warden,"   evidently 

Book         was  alive  to  the  responsibilities  of  his  official 

position  and  saw  to  it  both  that  a  receipt  was 

given  for  the  book  and  acknowledgement 

made  of  its  return.  One  more  entry  made 

subsequently  to  the   three  votes  recorded 

above  indicates  that  after  endeavoring  to 

recall  the  missing  volumes  the  Re6lor-Li- 

brarian  intended  to  safeguard  the  Library 

under  lock  and  key:  "1769.  Decem^  31.  To 

a  new  key  for  the  Library.  -10.-." 

The  Library  can  now  be  regarded  as  re- 
maining 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  2C) 

maining  under  the  watchful  care  of  its  cus- 
todian for  a  period  of  some  five  years.  But 
early  in  1775  it  transpired  that,  by  reason 
of  some  differences  between  pastor  and  con- 
gregation which  need  not  concern  us  here, 
Dr.  Byles,  with  the  knowledge  and  advice  Dr.  Byies 
of  the   Society,  was  "in  treaty"  with   the  ^^^'^"'^ 
church  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  with  a  view 
to  becoming  its  Re6tor.  At  a  meeting  of 
the  Proprietors  on  Easter  Tuesday,  April 
18,  1775,  which  had  been  adjourned  from 
the  previous  day  in  order  to  ascertain  the 
Do6tor's  intentions,  it  was  reported  that  he 
was  "willing  to  give  up  the  Keys  &  quit 
the  Church.''  They  accordingly  voted  to  Accepts  a 
"accept  of  his  offerd  resignation,''  and  the  po^tg- 
Doftor  sent  a  letter  of  acceptance  to  the  "^°"*^ 
Portsmouth  church.  But,  that  very  night, 
the  lights  which  shone  out  from  the  church 
belfry  brought  about  a  great  change  in  the  The  19th 
course  of  current  events,  and  when  the  sturdy  ^77/^' ' 
Loyalist  finally  left  Boston  in  the  following 
year  his  destination  was  Halifax,  and  the 
link  between  Christ  Church  and  the  Society 
for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign 
Parts  was  severed  forever. 

HAVING 


30  The  Parochial  Library 


H 


AVING  traced  the  history  of  the  Li- 
brary as  a  whole,  it  may  now  be  of 
interest  to  consider  some  of  its  component 
Restora-     parts.  The  restoration  of  the  church  to  its 
chris^t        original  form  was  completed  in  191  2,  and 
Church      Qi^  December  29 — the  same  month  and  day 
as  in  1723  —  a  dedicatory  sermon  was  again 
preached  in  it  by  its  Reftor,  the  Bishop  of 
the  Diocese.  Some  little  time  afterward  the 
present  "upper  Church  Warden,"  antiqua- 
rian as  well  as  Churchman,  following  in  the 
The  footsteps  of  his  predecessors,  carefully  segre- 

WaTden  gated  the  Parochial  Library  from  the  gen- 
Cbrar^^^  cral  colleftious  of  the  Church,  and  placed 
it  again  in  the  vestry-room  in  a  bookcase 
provided  for  that  purpose  by  the  present 
Reftor  and  successor  of  the  first  guardian  of 
the  Library. 

There  they  stand  to-day,  honored  veter- 
ans of  an  ecclesiastical  and  polemical  war- 
fare, but  showing  comparatively  few  scars  of 
battle  ;  their  days  of  activity  passed  and  over, 
yet  still  bearing  witness  to  stirring  times 
in  our  Provincial  history  both  in  State  and 
Church;  dignified  folios,  stout  quartos,  and 

goodly 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  3  i 

goodly  oftavos,  in  the  main  well  bound  in  The 
full  calf,  but  decorous  in  adornment  as  be-  and  their 
fits  their  charafter.  Their  sides  are  occasion-  ^'"^^"s^ 
ally  panelled  and  often  skilfully  blind  tooled. 
No  elaborate  gilt  tooling  is  to  be  found,  al- 
though here  and  there  a  back  hasbeen  mod- 
estly decorated.  One  volume  alone  has  the 
top  and  fore-edges  colored,  not  a  fore-edge 
painting,  but  merely  a  pattern  decoration  in 
color.  Only  in  rare  instances  has  any  letter- 
ing been  placed  on  the  backs,  which  causes 
them  to  present  a  somewhat  sombre  ap- 
pearance to  the  eye,  and  incidentally  neces- 
sitates the  taking  down  of  many  volumes 
before  finding  the  one  desired.  They  must 
have  passed  under  the  hands  of  binders  more 
merciful  than  many  of  the  period  in  which 
they  made  their  appearance,  for  ruthlessly 
shaved  tops  and  sides,  missing  imprints  and 
running  titles,  and  other  too  familiar  evi- 
dences of  bibliopegic  barbarities  are  the 
exception  rather  than  the  rule. 

Each    volume    (with    three   exceptions)  The 
bears  the  book-plate  of  the  Society  for  the  pi^te  of 
Propagation  of  the  Gospel.  In  a  medallion,  theVener- 
an  allegorical  representation  of  a  Mission-  Society 

ary 


32  The  Parochial  Library 

ary  arriving  in  Foreign  Parts,  and  being 
eagerly  welcomed  by  the  expedtant  inhab- 
itants as  he  stands  at  the  bow  of  the  ship 
holding  out  a  book  in  his  right  hand.  Pa- 
renthetically it  may  be  noted  that  the  Mis- 
sionary's head  reaches  nearly  to  the  ves- 
seFs  fore-top,  but  otherwise  the  design  and 
execution  are  very  fair.  Between  the  ship 
and  the  shore  is  a  scroll  with  the  words 
Transiens  Adjuva  Nos,  Around  the  medal- 
lion is  engraved  the  name  of  the  Society, 
also  in  Latin,  and  below  it  is  a  scroll  with 
the  lettering,  T/ie  Gift  of  the  Society  for  pro- 
pagating the  Go  spell  in  Foreign  parts  1704. 
Where  The  book-platc  is  always  to  be  found  in  a 
plate  °°  very  curious  place,  for  it  is  generally  pasted 
appears  ^^  ^}^g  vcrso  of  the  titlc-pagc,  or  occasion- 
ally on  the  verso  of  the  fore-title.  Presum- 
ably this  was  done  in  order  to  leave  the 
normal  habitat  of  book-plates  free  for  some 
indication  of  proprietorship  by  the  church. 
But  in  our  Library  at  least  this  opportunity 
was  rarely  availed  of,  although  in  a  few  of 
the  books  there  is  a  printed  label  on  the 
inside  of  the  first  cover.  This  is  found  prin- 
cipally in  the  folios,  and  in  one  instance  was 

inserted 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  "Boston  33 

inserted  in  one  of  the  King  George  Prayer- 
Books.  It  reads  : 

•To. 

OF 

CHRIST    CHURCH,    BOSTON. 
(FOUNDED  A.  D.  I'r23.) 


To  be  used  with  care,  and  returned  in  weeks. 

In  no  case  is  the  book  numbered,  nor  the 
time  limit  filled  in,  and  in  all  probability 
this  book-label  belongs  to  a  period  later  than 
the  one  under  consideration.  In  a  few  in- 
stances the  words  Belonging  to  Christ  Church 
Boston  are  to  be  found  written  on  cover  or 
fly-leaf. 

It  has  been  said  above  that  three  volumes  a  few 
lack  the  book-plate.  One  of  them,  the  An-  lack'thr 
swer  to  Snape  s  Accusation^  containing  a  col-  ^°°^^' 
leftion  of  pamphlets,  doubtless  had  it  when 
the  book  was  received  although  now  the 
title-page  is  missing,  possibly  having  been 
torn  out  by  some  book-plate  collector.  But 
the  book  is  bound  uniformly  with  a  number 

of 


34  The  Parochial  Library 

of  other  colleftions  of  pamphlets  and  ser- 
mons, and  like  them  has  a  list  of  contents  in 
manuscript  on  the  inside  cover,  and  it  prob- 
ably formed  a  part  of  the  same  collection 
and  gift.  The  other  two,  the  Marcellinusffij-- 
tory  and  the  1 666  edition  of  Hooker's  Eccle- 
siastical Polity^  never  had  it,  which  would 
seem  to  indicate  that  they  came  from  some 
donor  other  than  the  Society,  but  inasmuch 
as  we  know  from  the  Tidmarsh  catalogue 
that  they  formed  a  part  of  the  Library  in 
its  early  days,  they  are  still  included  in  it. 

Although  it  is  known  that  the  Society 
received  gifts  of  books  from  friends  inter- 
ested in  its  work  of  distribution,  as  in  the 
case  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dechair's  donation, 
there  are  surprisingly  few  evidences  of  pre- 
vious ownership  in  any  of  them.  One  vol- 
ume has  the  upper  corner  of  the  fly-leaf  torn 
off,  but  the  beginning  of  a  signature  can  just 
be  discerned  on  the  ragged  margin  of  the 
leaf.  Two  others  have  a  signature  so  heav- 
ily cancelled  with  a  pen  that  it  is  illegible. 
In  the  first  volume  of  Rev.  William  Cave's 
Earlier  Scriptovum  Ecclcsiasticorum  Historia  Lttera- 
r/^,  first  edition,  folio,  London,  i688,"Ch. 

Elstob" 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  35 

Elstob"  has  written  his  name  on  title-page 
and  two  fly-leaves.  The  singularity  of  this 
name  would  seem  to  warrant  connecting 
its  possessor  with  the  Rev.  William  El- 
stob  and  his  sister  Elizabeth,  both  of  them 
Anglo-Saxon  scholars  and  authors  of  the 
early  eighteenth  century.  At  all  events  a 
Rev.  Charles  Elstob,  prebendary  of  Canter- 
bury Cathedral  from  1685  ^^  ^721,  was  an 
uncle  and  also  guardian  of  William  Elstob. 
T.  Jervoise  had  owned  Trapp's  ^he  Church 
of  England  Defended  against  the  Calumnies  and 
False  Reasonings  of  the  Church  of  Rome ^  Lon-  Nomina, 
don,  1727;  H.Trinsham,T/^f  Genuine  Epistles  'prJ^f.^ea 
of  the  Apostolical  Fathers^  London,  17 19,  by  ""'^'^ 
Archbishop  Wake ;  and  A.  Stanhope,  Bishop 
Wilkins's  Of  the  Principles  and  Duties  of  Nat- 
ural Religion  ^l^onAon^  1678. 

The  catalogue  of  the  Library  compiled 
in  19 1 6  (see  Appendix  5),  records  ninety-  volumes 
two  volumes  all  told,  and  sixty-six  general  L^rary 
titles,  only  eight  more  volumes  but  thirteen 
more  titles  than  are  entered  in  the  catalogue 
of  1752.  A  number  of  volumes,  however, 
contain  collections  of  miscellaneous  ser- 
mons, tra6ts,  and  minor  publications  which 

will 


Additions 


36  The  Parochial  Library 

will  increase  the  total  by  some  eighty  sub- 
sidiary titles.  From  the  earlier  catalogue 
Losses  and  tweuty-three  general  titles  represented  by 
thirty-five  volumes  are  nov^  lost  to  us,  but 
their  places  are  filled  by  thirty-six  titles,  or 
forty-three  volumes,  which  were  acquired 
at  some  time  or  other  during  the  interval 
between  Warden  Tidmarsh's  record  and  Dr. 
Byles's  departure.  There  is  no  exaft  clue  as 
to  what  constituted  the  original  colleftion 
to  which  Dr.  Cutler  referred  in  his  report  to 
the  Society  in  1724.  Publication  dates  sim- 
ply serve  to  show  us  what  could  not  have 
been  there  then,  but  not  what  was.  A  num- 
ber of  the  books  were  published  prior  to 
1700,  more  between  1700  and  1724,  many 
around  1 730-1 740,  but  none  later  than 
1 744.  One  or  two  of  the  volumes  which  con- 
tain miscellaneous  colleftions  of  sermons 
and  trafts  can  possibly  be  regarded  as  having 
arrived  among  the  responses  to  Dr.  Cutler's 
calls,  from  1 740  to  1 743,  for  books  to  coun- 
tera6l  the  teachings  of  Whitefield,  since 
their  varied  contents  bear  direftly  on  the 
subjefl:  and  many  of  them  were  published 
at  about  the  time  his  appeals  reached  the 

Society. 


of  Books 
received 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  37 

Society.  Further  than  this  we  cannot  go 
with  any  degree  of  certainty,  for  nowhere  No 
is  there  to  be  found  any  detailed  account  Account 
of  books  when  received  for  the  Library,  and 
the  annual  reports  of  the  Society  are  very 
meagre  as  to  shipments  of  books,  even  in  the 
case  of  Mr.  Dechair's  presentation,  which 
was  sufficiently  notable  to  be  referred  to  in 
general  but  not  in  detail.  In  the  AbstraB  of 
the  Proceedings  of  the  Society  for  the  year 
February  21,1 745,  to  February  20, 1 746,  is 
this  record  following  the  list  of  donations 
in  money :  "Also  the  Society  hath  received 
within  the  Year,  and  return  Thanks  for  the 
following  Presents  of  Books.  For  a  valu- 
able Colle(5lion  of  Books  from  the  Rev.  Mr. 
William  Deehaire,  for  a  Parochial  Library  in 
some  part  oi  America :  And  it  is  ordered  by 
the  Society  to  be  placed  at  Christ-Church  in 
Boston  in  New  England,  under  the  care  of  the 
Reverend  Dr.  Cutler,  and  his  successors  in 
that  Parish.'' 

In  the  Society's  Report  for  the  following 
year  reference  is  made  to  Dr.  Cutler's  re- 
sponse to  the  notification  of  the  prospeftive 
receipt  of  these  books  almost  in  the  exa6t 

words 


38  The  Parochial  Library 

words  of  the  Do6lor  in  his  communication 
to  the  Secretary  under  date  of  December  26, 
1746. 

A  possible  clue  with  regard  to  the  dis- 
appearances of  some  books  from  the  Li- 
brary may  be  furnished  by  a  copy  of  Bishop 
Warburton's  T^he  Divine  Legation  of  Moses ^ 
London,  1742,  of  which  Vol.  I  alone  now 
remains.  On  a  fly-leaf  the  following  memo- 
randum is  written : 

Books  Middletons  Letters  i  Vol 

Mnoiiver         ^^^^^^  'f  Ordination  i  D' 

of  Salem  Lelunds  Divine  Authority  1  D° 

Binghams  Or.  Sac,  j  &  2  in  i 

fFells  agj'  Dissenters  i  D"" 

Histy.  of  Society  P.G.  i  D^ 

Boyles  Seraphic  Love  i  — 

'The  above  delivered  M\  Oliver  of  Salem. 

Of  these  seven  titles  we  still  possess 
Comber  on  Ordination^  Leland's  Divine  Au- 
thority ..zxid.  Bingham's  Origines  Ecclesiasticae. 
Bingham  is  particularly  easy  of  identifica- 
tion because  the  first  two  books  were  bound 
in  one  volume,  which  is  numbered  on  the 
back  "  I  and  2,"  as  is  noted  in  the  memo- 
randum. The  other  four  titles  are  still  un- 
accounted 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  39 

accounted  for  and  presumably  were  never 
returned.  At  first  glance  suspicion  seems  to 
point  toward  Mr.  Andrew  Oliver,  a  book- 
ish man  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Salem  Social  Library  in  1760.  But  the  fafl:  Mr. Oliver 
that  the  memorandum  was  made  with  a  larnt^fied 
pencil  instead  of  pen  and  ink  must  probably 
be  regarded  as  exculpating  him.  Then  the 
responsibility  may  lie  upon  Mr.  Thomas 
Fitch  Oliver  of  Salem,  a  graduate  of  Har- 
vard College  in  the  Class  of  1775,  first  a 
lay-reader  and  then  an  Episcopal  clergy- 
man. But  this  is  not  capable  of  proof  and 
probably  the  books  are  lost  to  us  forever. 
And  yet,  following  the  course  marked  out 
by  the  Wardens  and  Vestry  in  1769  with 
their  general  notice  in  the  columns  of  the 
Boston  Evening  Post  a  summons  may  be  sent : 

To  all  Descendants  of  one  "  Mr.  Oliver  of  Salem  "  (to  us 
unknown)  to  whom  these  Presents  may  come^  Greeting: 

SEE  that  ye  do  cause  diligent  search  to  be  made 
through  all  your  Book-Shelves^  personal  or  ancestral, 
and  if  there  be  found  thereon  any  of  the  four  TzV/^j  afore- 
said, accompanied  by  the  Honorable  Society's  Book- 
plate, the  Path  of  Duty  is  plain  before  you.  Whereof 
fail  not,  under  penalty  of  direful  Pangs  from  your  New 
England  Consciences. 

Among 


40  The  Parochial  Library 

TVtEcde-       Among  the  folios  Hooker's  Ecclesiasti- 
Toiity"^      ^^/  Polity^  London,*  1705,  stands  out  promi- 
nently. In  1 752  there  were  two  copies  in  the 
Library,  but  now  there  is  only  one.-f-  Possi- 
bly the  disappearance  of  the  other  volume 
may  account  for  the  words  which  are  to  be 
found  written  conspicuously  across  the  title- 
page  :  "This  Book  belongs  to  the  Libery 
of  Christ  Church  Boston."  It  is,  however, 
a  goodly  volume,  well  bound  with  wide 
margins  and  fair  to  the  eye.  An  excellent 
portrait   by   Faithorne   of  the   "Judicious 
Hooker"  serves  as  a  frontispiece  and  is  fol- 
lowed by  a  well-engraved  fore-title.  Izaak 
Walton's  Lz/d'  of  Hooker  is  of  course  included 
Mr.  Pepys  in  the  prefatory  matter.  When  Pepys,  the 
whh^        diarist  and  omnivorous  reader,  encountered 
Hooker      ^j^^  ^^^  'j^  j^-g  gj^jtion  of  1 666,  which  he 

bought  in  1667  and  now  is  in  the  Pepysian 
Library  at  Magdalen  College,  Cambridge, 
he  recorded  that  it  "pleases  me  as  much  as 
anything  I  have  read  a  great  while."  It  was 

f  Since  this  sketch  was  written  the  missing  copy  of  the  Ecclesiasti- 
cal Polity  has  been  restored  to  the  Library.  It  is  the  edition  of  1666, 
and,  while  in  excellent  condition,  is  neither  as  fine  nor  as  tall  as  the 
1705  edition.  It  evidently  was  not  presented  to  the  Library  by  the 
Society,  since  it  does  not  have  the  book-plate.  It  may  have  formed 
a  part  of  the  gift  which  included  the  Marcellinus. 

not 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  41 

not  his  first  acquaintance  with  the  Ecclesi- 
astical Polity,  though,  for  in  1 66 1  it  was  rec- 
ommended to  him  by  one  Mr.  Chetwind  "as 
the  best  book,  and  the  only  one  that  made 
him  a  Christian,  which  puts  me  upon  the 
buying  of  it,  which  I  will  do  shortly."  Not 
long  afterward  he  closes  his  record  of  a 
"Lord's  Day''  with  these  words  :"  At  night 
fell  to  read  in 'Hooker's  Ecclesiastical  Pol- 
ity,' which  Mr.  Moore  did  give  me  last 
Wednesday  very  handsomely  bound;  and 
which  I  shall  read  with  great  pains  and  love 
for  his  sake.  So  to  supper  and  to  bed."  The 
Faithorne  print  did  not  appear  with  the 
book  until  the  edition  of  1 662,  nor  the  Life 
of  Hooker  until  the  1666  edition,  but  the 
copy  which  Pepys  preserved  in  his  library 
had  them  both,  as  has  ours. 

It  has  been  said  that  the  books  in  the  Li- 
brary have  suffered  very  little  at  the  hands 
of  binders.  Yet  a  rather  curious  confusion  ABinder's 
does  exist  in  one  book,  due  to  the  binder's  Jl^^^' 
carelessness  in  the  forwarding  stage  of  the 
work,  although  he  had  as  a  guide  in  col- 
le£ling  the  sheets  the  first  aid  to  the  collator 
— catch-words.  Robert  Jenkin's  Reasonable- 
ness 


ness 


Confusion 


42  The  Parochial  Library 

ness  and  Certainty  of  the  Christian  Religion^  in 
two  volumes,  London,  1708,  is  catalogued 
with  this  note:  "Title-pages  interchanged 
in  the  two  volumes/'  This  statement  is 
correal  as  far  as  it  goes,  for  the  text  of  the 
A  curious  second  volume  is  in  fa6l  bound  up  with  the 
title-page  of  the  first,  and  the  text  of  the 
first  volume  with  the  title-page  of  the  sec- 
ond. But  a  careful  examination  reveals  a  still 
more  curious  confusion.  The  volume  num- 
bered I  begins  with  its  proper  title-page, 
which  is  of  the  third  edition,  and  is  fol- 
lowed by  the  "Epistle  Dedicatory''  and  its 
own  preface  through  page  viii.  Then  there  is 
a  sudden  break  in  the  continuity  of  the  text 
and  the  preface  continues  with  pages  xv 
to  /of  the  preface  to  the  second  volume,  fol- 
lowed by  the  table  of  contents  and  the  text, 
thefirst  text-page  having theheading  "Book 
II,  Chap.  I."  Then  the  volume  numbered  II 
starts  out  with  its  proper  title-page,  which 
is  of  the  second  edition,  and  its  preface 
through  page  xiv.  Here  again  a  break  comes 
and  the  preface  is  continued  with  pages  ix 
to  xxxviii  of  the  preface  of  the  first  volume, 
followed  by  the  table  of  contents  and  the 

text, 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  43 

text,  thefirst  text-page  being  headed, "  Book 

I,  Part  I." 

One  instance  of  ill  treatment  in  binding 

may  be  noted,  although   of  too  common 

occurrence  in  general  to  call  for  extended 

comment,  which  resulted  from  the  custom 

of  standardizing  pamphlets  which  are   of  unfortu- 

different  heights.  In  a  volume  containing  ^e^^uencr 

some  seventeen  sermons  and  trails,  the  last  of  stand- 
ardization 

traft  in  the  collection,  entitled  Observations 
upon  the  Condudl  and  Behavior  of  Methodists^ 
chanced  originally  to  have  been  consider- 
ably taller  than  the  rest,  with  one  excep- 
tion. In  consequence  the  Observations  on  the 
Methodists  lost  imprint,  date,  and  lower  lines 
of  text,while  a  sermon  by  Dr.  Bearcroft  fared 
a  little  better  in  losing  praftically  only  the 
imprint. 

As  would  naturally  be  expefted  in  a  li- 
brary of  this  kind,  there  are  a  great  many 
volumes  of  sermons.  But  these  were  by  no 
means  an  unusual  adjunft  to  private  libraries 
of  the  period.  The  presence  of  a  very  con-  Topham 
siderable  quantity  of  literature  of  this  type  aCoikc'^ 
in  the  library  of  Topham  Beauclerk  aroused  ^°^  °^ 

-'         ^        ^  ^  Sermons 

some  comment  in  the  Johnsonian  circle,  for 

two 


44  Th^  Parochial  Library 

two  days  of  the  sale  of  his  colle6tion  were 
to  be  devoted  to  theological  works.  Yet  the 
comment  was  not  occasioned  so  much  by 
the  presence  of  the  books  themselves  as  by 
reason  of  the  apparent  incongruity  with  the 
charafter  of  the  owner.  When  surprise  was 
expressed  that  "a  gentleman  of  Mr.  Beau- 
clerk's  character  in  the  gay  world"  should 
have  made  so  large  a  colle6tion  of  sermons 
Dr.  Dr.  Johnson  remarked :  "  Why,  Sir,  you  are 

otinion'  ^^  cousidcr,  that  sermons  make  a  consider- 
able branch  of  English  literature;  so  that 
a  library  must  be  very  imperfed  if  it  has 
not  a  numerous  colleftion  of  sermons :  and 
in  all  collections.  Sir,  the  desire  of  augment- 
ing it  grows  stronger  in  proportion  to  the 
advance  in  acquisition :  as  motion  is  accel- 
erated by  the  continuance  of  the  impetus.  Be- 
sides, Sir,  ...  a  man  may  coiled  sermons 
with  intention  of  making  himself  better  by 
them.  I  hope  Mr.  Beauclerk  intended,  that 
some  time  or  other  that  should  be  the  case 
with  him.'' 
A  good  Dr.  Johnson  may  be  regarded  as  a  fairly 
Authority  ^^^j  authority  ou  the  subjeft  of  sermons,for 
Sermons    ^g  ^ot  ouly  read  them  but  also  wrote  them. 

One 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  45 

One  of  his  favorite  sermon  writers,  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Clarke,  Re6lor  of  St.  James's,  West- 
minster, is  represented  in  the  Library  by  a 
volume  entitled  A  Discourse  Concerning  the 
Being  and  Attributes  of  God ^  eighth  edition, 
London,  1732,  containing  a  series  of  six- 
teen sermons  preached  in  the  years  1704 
and  1705  "at  the  Lefture  founded  by  the 
Hon.  R.  Boyle,  Esq." 

Johnson's  opinion  of  Clarke  is  recorded 
by  William  Seward  in  \\\%  Anecdotes  of  Dis- 
tinguished Persons  as  follows:  "A  friend  of 
Dr.  Johnson  asked  him  one  day,  whose  ser- 
mons were  the  best  in  the  English  lan- 
guage.'Why,  Sir,  bating  a  little  heresy  those  Johnson's 
of  Dr.  Samuel  Clarke.' This  great  and  excel-  of  cTarke 
lent  man  had  indeed  good  reason  for  thus 
highly  praising  them,  as  he  told  a  relation 
of  Dr.  Clarke  they  made  him  a  Christian. 
In  his  opinion  Clarke  was  the  most  com- 
plete literary  character  that  England  ever 
produced."  In  17 14  Clarke  was  accused 
of  Arianism,  and  this  charge  and  also  his 
change  in  point  of  view  barred  the  way  to 
his  elevation  to  a  bishopric  in  the  time  of 
George  11.  In  the  course  of  a  cross-exami- 
nation 


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Recom- 
mends his 
Sermons 


nation  by  Boswell  as  to  "what  were  the  best 
English  sermons  for  style"  Dr.  Johnson  re- 
plied: "I  should  recommend  Dr.  Clarke  s 
sermons,  were  he  orthodox.  However  it  is 
very  well  known  w/^frd*  he  was  not  orthodox, 
which  was  upon  the  doftrine  of  the  Trinity, 
as  to  which  he  is  a  condemned  heretick; 
so  one  is  aware  of  it.''  In  Johnson's  Prayers 
and  Meditations  there  are  a  number  of  refer- 
ences to  Clarke's  sermons  in  his  records  of 
his  devotional  readings,  and  on  his  death- 
bed he  urged  his  friend  and  physician,  Dr. 
Brocklesbury,  to  read  them  and  to  study 
Dr.  Clarke  :  "  Because,  (said  he,)  he  is  fullest 
on  the  propitiatory  sacrificed 

Eighteenth  century  opinion  of  theologi- 
cal literature,  however,  was  not  always  so 
favorable  as  that  expressed  by  Dr.  Johnson. 
The  poet  Gray,  in  writing  to  one  of  his 
friends  some  comments  on  a  recently  pub- 
lished book,  The  CharaBer  and  Condudl  of 
Cicero  considered^  referred  rather  slightingly 
to  a  prolific  writer,  the  Rev.  Daniel  Water- 
land,  who  is  represented  in  our  Library  by 
four  volumes.  For  he  remarked  that  "there 
are  whole  Pages  of  Common-Place  Stuff, 

that 


The  poet 
Gray 
contrasts 
Colley 
Gibber 
and  Dr. 
Water- 
land 


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that  for  stupidity  might  have  been  wrote 
by  D'^  Waterland  or  any  other  grave  Divine, 
did  not  the  flirting  saucy  Phrase  give  them 
at  a  Distance  an  Air  of  Youth  &  Gayety." 

The  Georgian  "Gentlewoman  of  the  Old  The 
School''  as  portrayed  by  her  creator,  Mr.  centfe-^" 
Austin  Dobson,  was  evidently  familiar  with  ^^^^^^ 
one  of  the  books  enumerated  in  the  Tid-  Pearson 
marsh  catalogue.  For  creed 

,  .  .  She  would  read^ 
On  Sundays^  ^^Pearson  on  the  Creed^' 
'Though^  as  I  think,  she  could  not  heed 
His  text  profoundly. 

After  explaining  the  cause  of  her  somnolent 
inattention  the  poet  continues: 

.  .  .  The  dear  old  dame 
In  truth,  was  not  so  much  to  blame; 
The  excellent  divine  I  name 

Is  scarcely  stirring. 

The  Library's  copy  of  Clarke's  Discourse 
has  on  the  inside  of  the  cover  a  brief  manu- 
script record  of  a  portrait  of  Dr.  Clarke, 
which  hung  in  Kensington  Palace,  with  an 
eulogistic  "charafter"  inscribed  beneath  it. 
This  volume  also  has  on  its  fly-leaves,  in  Some 

-'  '  Poetical 

the  same  handwriting,  several  short  poems.  Effusions 

including 


48  The  Parochial  Library 

including  one  of  six  lines  on  "God's  Omni- 
potence'' and  a  longer  one  entitled  "The 
Divine  Immensity,  An  Ode."  Several  vol- 
umes all  told  have  a  liberal  sprinkling  of 
poetry  on  covers  and  fly-leaves.  The  topics 
appear  to  be  of  a  religious  nature,  although 
there  is  one  set  ofverses  addressed  "To  my 
Study,  by  a  Young  Lady,''  and  another  on 
"The  Plague."  The  v^riting  is  cramped  and 
freely  abbreviated  and  gives  the  impression 
of  having  been  executed  with  a  quill  pen  on 
a  rather  porous  paper.  It  is  difficult  to  de- 
cipher, but,  judging  from  occasional  lines 
w^hich  can  be  read  v^ith  comparative  ease, 
there  is  little  lost  by  leaving  the  others  in 
obscurity. 
Misceiia-  Nine  volumes  w^hich  contain  sermons, 
pamphlets  trafts,and  miscellaneous  pamphlets  are  sim- 
ply and  uniformly  bound  in  boards  v^ith  a 
leather  back,  evidently  as  a  convenience  and 
means  of  proteftion.  They  all  have  on  the 
inside  cover  a  manuscript  list  of  their  con- 
tents in  the  same  handwriting  as  that  of  the 
poetry.  This  is  a  useful  addition  for  ready 
reference,  as  they  are  likely  to  contain  any- 
where from  ten  to  fifteen  separate  publica- 
tions. 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  49 

tions.  In  one  instance  the  scribe  has  repaired 

the  damage  done  by  the  loss  of  the  last  two 

or  three  pages  of  An  Essay  on  Redemption 

which  is  bound  up  with  Trapp's  Reply  to 

Mr,  Law's  Serious  and  Earnest  Answer,  The  Missing 

printed  text  ends  abruptly  with  page  100,  ^ppHed 

and  two  leaves  with  three  paees  of  manu-  ^"  Manu- 

^    ^      ^  script 

script  are  bound  in  to  complete  it.  The  re- 
production of  the  missing  portion  is  treated 
in  rather  a  curious  manner;  for  the  writer 
begins  with  the  last  two  lines  of  page  loo, 
evidently  in  order  to  make  the  continuity 
perfeftly  plain,  and  then  writes  out  a  portion 
of  page  1 01  and  ends  with  the  sign  "&c/' 
This  is  followed  by  what  is  apparently  the 
first  part  of  page  102,  for  the  page  number 
is  inserted  in  the  margin,  and  this  portion 
of  the  transcription  also  ends  in  the  same  involved 

^1  J-  npi  J       method  of 

manner  as  the  one  precedmg.  1  he  succeed-  transcrip- 
ing  leaf  presents  what  at  first  sight  appears  *^°" 
to  be  a  different  handwriting,  but  which  is 
probably  the  work  of  the  same  writer  using 
a  sharper  pen  and  blacker  ink.  The  transcrip- 
tion of  page  1 01  is  resumed  where  it  broke 
off  on  the  first  leaf,  but  again  a  line  is  re- 
peated to  make  the  connexion  clear.  After 

completing 


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completing  page  loi  the  same  method  is 
repeated  with  the  rest  of  page  102,  which 
process  fills  up  the  second  leaf  entirely,  and 
then  the  writer  returns  to  the  top  of  the 
first  leaf  for  the  last  few  lines  and  ends  with 
the  word  "Finis." 

It  is  at  first  a  not  unnatural  assumption 
that  the  manuscript  notes  are  in  the  hand 
of  Dr.  Cutler,  and  that  the  indexing  at  least 
was  done  for  his  own  convenience.  But  a 
careful  examination  of  unquestionable  ex- 
amples of  the  Doftor's  writing  shows  that 
while  there  are  a  few  points  of  similarity, 
the  differences  are  too  great  to  warrant  the 
belief  that  he  was  the  writer.  A  somewhat 
similar  process  eliminates  Dr.  Byles  from 
consideration,  and  the  possibility  develops 
that  the  notes  were  made  in  the  books 
before  they  were  sent  over  to  this  country, 
but  by  whom  it  cannot  be  inferred  with  any 
degree  of  probability.  Doubtless  they  were 
the  work  of  some  previous  owner  while  the 
books  formed  a  part  of  a  private  library. 
About  a  dozen  volumes  show  the  same  hand- 
writing, and  in  none  of  the  other  books  are 
there  any  notes  of  this  charafter.  Since  a 

great 


The 

Writer  of 
the  Man- 
uscript 
Notes  can- 
not be  dis- 
covered 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  5  i 

great  many  of  the  sermons  and  trafts  bear 
publication  dates  from  1740  to  1744,  it  is 
by  no  means  unlikely  that  they  once  formed 
a  part  of  the  colledlion  which  was  presented 
by  Mr.  Dechair.  But  even  as  he  has  proved 
to  be  a  somewhat  shadowy  personage,  for 
there  seems  to  be  little  or  nothing  which 
can  be  learned  concerning  him,  so  must  the 
writer  of  the  manuscript  notes  be  left  in 
shadow. 

And  now  the  afternoon  lights  are  fading 
and  the  vestry-room  grows  dim.  We  care- 
fully put  the  last  volume  back  in  its  accus- 
tomed place  on  the  shelves,  turn  the  key 
in  the  door  of  the  bookcase,  and  leave  the 
Library  in  its  sheltered  resting-place. 

Vale^  atque  Salve. 


APPENDICES 


APPENDICES 


Appendix  A 

Library  Belonging  to  Christ  Church 

•f  Catalogue  taken  by  Qiles  Tidmarsh 

28'*^  <y  29'*^  August  1752  Viz':  f 


55 


Vol: 
1 

1 
I 

1 


Folio's 

Stackhous's  History  of  the  Bible 
^Collier  s  Ecclesiastical  History 

Hammonds  Annotations  On  y^  N.  Test^ 
"^Hookers  Ecclesiastical  polity 

Tillotsons  Works 

*  Walkers  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy 
Bishop  Saundersons  Sermons 

*  Chillingsworths  Works 

*  Tuffendorphs  law  of  Nature  ^  Nations 

*  Cambridge  Concordance 
"^"Burnetts  Exposition  of  y'39  Articles 

^  ChillingsfleetsX  Antiquity s  of  y'  "British 
Churches 
Terson  on  y^  Creed 

*  J[dedes  Works 
Bakers  Cronocles 

Cap!  Stevens's  History  of  Spain 
'^  Jvlarcellini  %oman  History  Latin 


X  Error  for 

Stilling- 

fieefs 


t  Books  which  are  now  in  the  Library  are  indicated  by  an  asterisk. 

Qjiarto  s 


56  The  Parochial  Library 


Q 


uarto  s  y^ 


Origin  Against  Celse 
"^  "Barrow  on  Popes  Supremacy 
History  of  Independancy 
Bishop  Lincoln's  Charge  to  the  Clergy 

*  Stillingfleet  on  Christian  Faith 
Common  place  book 

Odavds 

fVolumes  *  ^y/^/zc/^/f^r^j- Sacred  ^  Prophane  History f  3 

II  and  III      U Estranges  Josephus  2 

*  Trideaux  Connexion  3 
Youngs  Sermons  1 

J  Volume    "^  E chard s  Ecclesiastical  History  J  2 

ony        *y^;^/^f;;j- Reasonableness  of  Christianity  2 

^U^wcomb  On  Church  Chatechism  2 

*  %eeves  Apologies  of  Justin  3\dartyr  &c.  2 
§  Volume  "^  Scotts  Scrmons  §  2 
II  only       ^"Binghams  Origens  Ecclesiastica                        10 

Bulls  Work  3 

*  D06I:  Bulls  Life  I 
^r^j  Against  3^al  1 

*  Clarks  Attributes  i 
^  Hornocks  Sermons  2 

zAssigny's  Christian  Defence  i 

*  Inquiry  after  happiness  2 
Castrells  Certainty  of  y^  Christian  Revelation  2 

Ostervald 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston 


57 


Vol 


Ostervald  Against  Uncleanness 

*  Validity  of  English  Ordinations 

*  Totters  Discourse  of  Church  Goverment 

*  Answer  to  Snapes  Accusation 
T)enhams  Psalms 

Knights  Sermons 

T)urhams  Phisico  Theologico 

*  Waterland  upon  the  Eucharist 
"^tVaterland  against  Clark 

"^  Leelands  Authority  of  y'  Old  ^  New  Test' 
^Qrey  upon  [j^all 

*  Waterlands  Sermons 


Appendix  B 


58  The  Parochial  Library 

Appendix  B 

The  Parochial  Library  of 

Christ  Church,  "Boston 

As  Catalogued  in  the  Year  1916^ 


AN  Appeal  to  the  Common  Sense  Common 
±\.  Honesty  and  Common  Piety  of  the  Laity, 
in  respedl  to  the  Payment  of  Tythe,  etc.  London^ 
1744.  8vo. 

Other  Trails  and  Sermons  in  this  volume  are: 

A  Sermon  preach' d  on  the  Fast-Day,  November  10,  i  742; 
by  Rev.  William  Webster^  D.D.  2d  ed.  Londo?i,  n.d.  8vo. 

...  A  Sermon  Occasioned  by  the  Death  of  the  Reverend 
Mr.  T)aniel  CN^al .  .  .  by  T)avid  Jennings,  London,  1743. 
8vo, 

A  Sermon  preach*  d  at  the  Funeral  of .  .  .  John  Earl  of 
Rochester  ...  by  Thomas  T'arsonsy  M.A.  13th  ed.  London, 
1728.  8vo. 

An  Earnest  Dissuasive  from  Intemperance  in  Meats  and 
Drinks;  a  Sermon  ...  by  Edmund  Qibson,  D.D.,  Bishop  of 
London.  4th  ed.  London,  1743.  8vo. 

A  Serious  Exhortation  to  Repentance  .  .  .  w^ritten  about  the 
Middle  of  the  Fourth  Century,  by  St.  Ephraim  the  Syrian.  Lon- 
don, 1 73  I.  8vo. 

Queries  Recommended  to  the  Authors  of  the  Late  Discourse 
of  Free  Thinking,  by  a  Christian.  London,  171 3.  8vo. 

f  All  of  the  volumes,  with  three  exceptions,  have  the  book-plate 
of  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts. 

A 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  59 

A  Reply  to  Mr.  z^hCartiri's  Examination  ...  by  Thomas 
Emly?t.  Londoriy  1720.  8vo. 

The  IN^njurors  Separation  from  the  Public  Assemblys  of 
the  Church  of  ^;/^/^/?^examin'd,  ...  by  Tho.  Rennet y  D.D. 
2d  ed.  London^  17 16.  8vo. 

An  Examination  of  a  Book  .  .  .  zn'C\\\.t^y^'^rief  ^Account 
of  many  of  the  'Prosecutions  of  the  T^eople  called  fakers,  .  .  . 
London,  i  740.  8vo. 

An  Historical  Account  of  the  Rise  and  Growth  of  Heresie 
in  the  Christian  Church,  by  f.  Sharpe,  A.M.  Parts  i  and  11. 
LondoHy  I  71 8.  8vo. 

U  Contents  in  manuscript  on  inside  cover. 

B 

BArrou\  Isaac ^  D.D. 
A  Treatise  of  the  Pope's  Supremacy.  To 
which  is  added  A  Discourse  Concerning  The 
Unity  of  the  Church.  London,  1680.  4to. 

Baxter,  '^R^chard. 

An  Abridgment  of  Mr.  Baxter's  History  of  his 
Life  and  Times  ...  by  Edmund  Calamy.  London, 
1702.  8vo. 

\^Bayly,Benjamm,M..K.,Kt&iovoi?it.yames's 
"Bristol,^ 

An  Essay  on  Inspiration,  In  Two  Parts.  Lon- 
don, 1707.  Svo. 

Rennet,  'Thomas,  M.A.,  Reftor  of  St.  James's 
Colchester. 

A  Confutation  of  Quakerism;  or  a  Plain  Proof 

of 


6o  The  Parochial  Library 

of  the  Falshood  of  what  the  Principal  Quaker 
Writers  (especially  Mr.  "B^.  "Barclay  in  his  zApol- 
ogy  and  other  Works)  do  Teach  ...  ad  ed.  Cam- 
bridge^ 1709-  8vo. 

'Sennet^  T^homas^  D.D.,  late  Vicar  of  St.  Giles's 
Cripplegate. 

A  Confutation  of  Quakerism;  or  a  Plain  Proof 
of  the  Falshood  of  what  the  Principal  Quaker 
Writers  (especially  Mr.  !7^.  "Barclay  in  his  zApol- 
ogy  and  other  Works)  do  Teach  .  .  .  3d  ed.  Lon- 
don, 1733'  8vo. 

Bingham,  Joseph,  Reftor  of  Havant. 
Origines  Ecclesiasticae :  or.  The  Antiquities  of 
the  Christian  Church.  10  vols,  bound  in  9.  Z^w- 
don,  iyoS-ij22.  8vo. 


CAve,  IVilliam, 
Scriptorum  Ecclesiasticorum  Historia  Lit- 
erariaAC^w/<9NatousqueadSaeculumXIV  .  .  . 
Accedit  ab  Alia  Manu  \_H.  PFhartono']  Appendix 
ab  ineunte  Saeculo  XIV  ad  Annum  usque  1 5 1 7. 
Scriptorum  Ecclesiasticorum  Historia  Litera- 
ria  .  .  .  Pars  Altera.  .  .  .  Ad  calcem  vero  Operis 
Dissertationes  Tres.  2  vols.  Londini,  1688-98. 
Fol. 

Autograph  on  title-page:  Ch.  Elstob. 

Chillingworth^ 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  6i 

Chillingworth^  William^  M.A. 
The  Works  of  William  Chillingworth,  .  .  . 
Containing  his  Book,  Entitl'd,  T^he  Religion  of 
Trotestants  a  Safe  IV ay  to  Salvation;  together  with 
His  Nine  Sermons  preached  before  the  KJ^ng  .  .  . 
His  Nine  Additional  Discourses.  .  .  .  Two  Let- 
ters Never  before  Printed,  yth  ed.  London^  ^1^9- 
Fol. 

The  Nine  Additional  Discourses  are  of  the  3d  edition. 

Clagett,  William,  D.D. 

A  Treatise  Concerning  the  Operations  of  the 
Holy  Spirit:  being  the  substance  of .  .  .  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Clagett's  Discourse  upon  that  Subjedl.  By 
Henry  Stehbing,  M.A.  London ^  ^1^9-  8vo. 

Clarke,  John,  D.D. 

An  Enquiry  into  the  Cause  and  Origin  of  Evil . . . 
Being  the  Substance  of  Eight  Sermons  Preached 
.  .  .  in  17 1 9,  at  the  Ledure  founded  by  the  Hon. 
%ohert  "Boyle,  London,  1720.  8vo. 

An  Enquiry  into  the  Cause  and  Origin  of  Moral 
Evil  .  .  .  Being  the  Substance  of  Eight  Sermons 
Preached  ...  in  1720,  at  the  Ledlure  founded 
by  the  Hon.  %ohert  "Boyle,  London,  1721.  8vo. 

Clarke,  Samuel,  D.D.,  Reftor  of  St.  James's 
Westminster, 

A  Discourse  Concerning  the  Being  and  Attri- 
butes 


62  The  Parochial  Library 

butes  of  God,  the  Obligations  of  Natural  Reli- 
gion, and  the  Truth  and  Certainty  of  the  Christian 
Revelation  .  .  .  Being  sixteen  Sermons,  Preach'd 
...  in  1704,  and  1705,  at  the  Ledure  Founded 
by  the  Hon.  %^hert  "Boyle,  8th  ed.  London^  i73^- 
8vo. 

This  volume  includes: 

Several  Letters  to  the  Reverend  D:  Ciarke,  .  .  .  Relating  to 
the  First  Volume  of  the  Foregoing  Sermons;  with  the  T)^'^.  An- 
swers thereunto.  5th  ed.  Lo7idony  1731.  8vo. 

A  Defence  of  Dr.  Clarke's  Evidences  of  Natural  and  Re- 
vealed Religion y  by  Henry  Stebbingy  D.D.  London,  1 73  i .  8vo. 

H  Charafter  of  Dr.  Clarke  and  manuscript  poetry  on  inside  cover 
and  fly-leaves. 

Collier^  Jeremy^  M.A. 

An  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Qreat  SnV^/;?, chiefly 
o^ England :  from  the  First  Planting  of  Christian- 
ity, To  the  End  of  the  Reign  of  King  Charles  the 
Second.  With  a  Brief  Account  of  the  Affairs  of 
Religion  in  Ireland,  Colleded  from  the  best  An- 
cient Historians,  Councils,  and  Records.  1  vols. 
London,  1708-17 14.  Fol. 

Comber^  'Thomas,  D.D.,  Dean  oi  IDurham. 
A  Discourse  upon  the  Form  and  Manner  of 
Making,  Ordaining,  and  Consecrating  Bishops, 
Priests,  and  Deacons,  According  to  the  Order  of 
the  Church  q{  England.  1  copies.  London,  i6gg. 
8vo. 

Conyl?eare, 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  63 

Conybeare^  "John^  D.D.,  Reftor  oi Exeter  Col- 
lege Oxford, 

A  Defence  of  Reveal'd  Religion  against  the  Ex- 
ceptions of  a  late  Writer,  in  his  Book,  Intituled, 
Christianity  as  Old  as  the  Creation  [by  M.  Tindal'\ . 
id  ed.  London^  1732-  8vo. 

E 

EChard^  Laurefjce^  A.M.,  Arch-Deacon 
of  Stowe. 
A  General  Ecclesiastical  History  from  the  Na- 
tivity of  our  "Blessed  Saviour  to  the  First  Estab- 
lishment of  Christianity  by  Human  Laws,  under 
the  Emperor  Constantine  the  Qreat.  Vol.  I  only. 
4th  ed.  London,  171 8.  8vo. 

Edwards^  Jonathan^  D.D.,  Principal  oi  Jesus 
College,  Oxford. 

A  Preservative  against  Socinianism  shewing  the 
Dire6land  Plain  Opposition  between  It,  and  the 
Religion  Revealed  by  God  in  the  Holy  Scriptures. 
4  pts.  Oxon.  Part  i,  1693.  Part  11,  2d  ed.,  1698. 
Part  III,  1697.  ^^^t  iVj  1703.  4to. 

Each  part  has  title-page  and  separate  pagination  ;  date  of  Part  in 
printed  by  error  mdcxdvii. 

[Ellis,  John,  D.D.] 

The  Knowledge  of  Divine  Things  from  Revela- 
tion, not  from  Reason  or  Nature.  ...  By  a  Gen- 
tleman 


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tleman  of  "Brazen-O^se  College,  Oxford;  now  of 
the  Diocese  of  Chester.  London^  I743-  8vo. 


GAr  diner  ^yames^  Re6lor  of  St.  ^Michael's 
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Other  Sermons  in  this  volume  are: 

A  Sermon  Preach' d  before  the  Hon^'^  House  of  Lords,  On 
the  First  Day  of  Aug.  171  5.  Being  the  Day  on  which  His 
Majesty  began  his  Happy  Reign.  By  .  .  .  Johtiy  Lord  Bishop  of 
Oxford.  London y  1 7 1  5.  4to. 

.  .  .  Sermon  Preached  before  the  Honourable  Trustees  for 
Establishing  the  Colony  of  Qeorgidy  in  America,  and  the  Asso- 
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'Bearcroft  D.D.  Preacher  at  Charter-House.  London,  [date 
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liam 'Berriman,  D.D.,  Reftor  of  St.  zAndrezu^s  Under  shaft  .  .  . 
London,  1739.  4to. 

.  .  .  Sermon  [on  similar  occasion]  March  20,  1739-40.  By 
William  Crowe,  D.D.,  Reftor  of  the  Parish  Church  of  St. 
'Botolph  "Bishopsgate.  London,  1740.  4to. 

Sermon  [on  similar  occasion]  March  19,  1740— i.  By  Ed- 
mund Bateman,  D.D.,  Reftor  of  St.  T>unstan  in  the  East.  Lon- 
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.  .  .  Sermon  [on  similar  occasion]  March  i8,  i  741-2.  By 
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Sermon  [on  similar  occasion]  March  1 7,  i  742-3.  By  James 
Kingy  D.D.,  Re6lor  of  St.  <LMichael  Crooked-Lane.  London, 
1743.  4to. 

A  Sermon  Preach' d  to  the  Religious  Societies  in  and  about 
London  .  .  .  March  the  21st,  1738-9.  By  William  'Berri- 
man,  D.D.,  Reftor  of  ^i.zAndrew''s  Under  shaft.  London,  1739. 
4to. 

A  Sermon  Preach' d  .  .  .  May  the  8^^,  1 740,  being  the  Time 
of  the  Yearly  Meeting  of  the  Children  Educated  in  Charity 
Schools  ...  of  London  and  Westminster.  By  John  Thomas, 
D.D.,  Dean  of  T'eterborough.  To  which  is  annexed,  an  Ac- 
count .  .  .  of  the  Society  for  'Promoting  Christian  Knowledge, 
London,  1740.  4to. 

...  A  Second  Sermon  on  cJllfCark  xii,  24,  25,  &c. Preached 
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A  Sermon  Preach' d  before  the  Society  ...  for  promoting 
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1742-3.  By  John  Thomas,  D.D.  Dean  oiT^eterborough.  Lon- 
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Kidder,  Richard,  Lord  Bishop  of  "Bath  & 
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relating  to  Mr.  T^illonniere ;  by  <iAndrew  Snape,  D.D.  3d  ed. 
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Peter  Francis  Le  Courayer,  Canon  Regular 
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of  the  Church  of  England,  To  which  is  prefixed  a 
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Leland,  John,  M.A. 

The  Divine  Authority  of  the  Old  and  New  Tes- 
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Leslie,  Charles,  M.A. 

The  Case  Stated  Between  the  Church  of  %ome 
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Ex  Bullario  Laertii  Cherubini,  %^mae  1638  .  .  .  Constitutio 
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The  Proceedings  of  the  Parliament  of  'T^aris  upon  the  Pope's 
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\Lucas,  ^^B^chard.\ 

An  Enquiry  after  Happiness  ...  by  the  Author 
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Vol.  II  entitled  Humane  Life:  or,  a  Second  Part 
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3^wcome,  '^eter,  M.A.,  Vicar  of  Hackney, 
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Other  Tradls  in  this  volume  are: 

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A  Sermon  Preached  at  the  Parish- Church  of  '^exly  in  Kenty 
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The  Nature,  Folly,  Sin,  and  Danger  of  being  Righteous  over- 
much .  .  .  beingthe  Substance  of  Four  Discourses  lately  Preached 
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Observations  and  Remarks  on  Mr.  Seagrave^s  Conduft  and 
Writings.  London,  1739.  8vo. 

The  Bishop  o^  London's  [Edmund  ^ibson']  Pastoral  Letter  to 
the  People  of  his  Diocese.  3d  ed.  London,  1739.  ^v°* 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Whitejield' s  An?>WQr  to  the  Bishop  of  L(?W(?//'j 
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A  Supplement  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Whitejield' s  Answer  by  a 
Presbyter  of  the  Church  of  England,  n.d.  8vo. 

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Methodism  Displayed ;  or  Remarks  upon  Mr.  Whitejield'' s 
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The  True  Spirit  of  the  Methodists  and  their  Allies.  .  .  . 
London,  1 740.  8vo. 

The  Imposture  of  Methodism  Display' d  ...  by  William 
'bowman,  M.A.  London,  1740.  8vo. 

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P)Otter,  John,  D.D.,  Lord  Bishop  of  Ox- 
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Christian  Princes,  are  Vindicated  and  Adjusted. 
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The  Present  State  of  the  Republick  of  Letters.  For  April, 
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A  Chronological  Essay  on  the  Sacred  History  from  the  Cre- 
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LL.D.  London,  1729.  8vo. 

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'^R^gers,  John,  D.D.,  Canon  of  Wells. 
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Pra6tical  Discourses  Concerning  Obedience  and 
the  Love  of  God.  Vol.  II  only.  2d  ed.  London^ 
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Sharp,  yohn,  late  Lord  Arch-Bishop  oiTo'  k. 
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Two  Sermons  Preached  before  the  University  of  Oxford, 
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The  Answer  of  the  Earl  of  J^ttingham  to  Mr.  Whiston's 
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Free  Thoughts  on  Mr.  Wools  ton  and  his  Writings.  2d  ed. 
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A  Sermon  Preached  at  the  Parish-Church  of  St.  T>unstan' s 
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H  Contents  in  manuscript  on  inside  cover. 

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A  Paraphrase  and  Comment  upon  the  Epistles 
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Origines  Sacrae,  or  a  Rational  Account  of  the 
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The  Arraignment,  Tryal  and  Condemnation  oi%^berty  Earl 
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Trappy  Joseph,  D.D. 

A  Reply  to  Mr.  Law's  Earnest  and  Serious  An- 
swer ...  to  Dr.  T^rapp's  Discourse  of  the  Folly, 
Sin,  and  Danger  of  being  Righteous  Over-much. 
London,  i74i-  8vo. 

Other  Tradls  in  this  volume  are: 

A  True  State  of  the  Controversy  with  Mr.  Foster  on  the  Sub- 
ject of  Heresy.  By  Henry  Stebbing,  D.D.  LondoUy  1736.  8vo. 

An  Answer  to  Dr.  St  ebbing' s  True  State  of  the  Controversy 
with  Mr.  Foster y  ...  by  James  Foster.  London y  1737.  8vo. 

A  Reply  to  Mr.  Foster"*  s  Answer  to  the  True  State  of  the 
Controversy  .  .  .  hy  Henry  Stebbingy'D.T).  London,  1737.8VO. 

Self-Love  and  Vertue  Reconciled  only  by  Religion  .  .  . 
[Isaac  Watts yT>.T>.]  Londony  1739.  ^^o- 

The  Analogy  of  Reason,  or  the  Doftrine  of  the  Trinity 
Proved  by  Natural  Principles.  By  the  Author  of  the  Ground  and 
Nature  of  Human  Knowledge.  London,  1739.  8vo. 

The  Doftrine  of  Justification  by  Faith  ...  by  ^Arthur  'Bed- 
ford, M.A.  London,  1741.  8vo. 

An  Essay  on  Redemption,  Being  the  Second  Part  of  Divine 
Redlitude.  \J.  'Ba/guy.]  London,  1741.  8vo. 

^Text  following  page  100  completed  in  manuscript. 

A  Letter  to  a  Gentleman  Dissenting  from  the  Church  of 
England  ...  by  John  White,  B.D.  London,  1743.  8vo. 

^  Contents  in  manuscript  on  inside  cover. 

w 

WAke,  William,  Archbishop  oi  Canter- 
bury, translator  and  editor. 
T  he  Genuine  Epistles  of  the  Apostolical  Fathers, 

St. 


78  The  Parochial  Library 

St.  'Barnabas,  St.  Ignatius,  St.  Clement,  St.  Toly- 
carp,  .  .  .  3d  ed.  London,  1719.  8vo. 

Autograph  on  title-page  :  H.  Tr'msham. 

Walker,  John,  M.A.,  Reftor  of  St.  ^Mary  s 

Exeter. 

An  Attempt  towards  Recovering  an  Account  of 

the  Numbers  and  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy  of  the 

Church  of  England,  .  .  .  who  were  Sequester'd, 

Harrass'd,  etc.,  in  the  late  Times  of  the  Grand 

Rebellion.  London,  17 14.  Fol. 

War  burton,  William,  A.M. 

The  Divine  Legation  q{ Otiose s  Demonstrated,  on 

the  Principles  of  a  Religious  Deist  .  .  .  Vol.  I 

only.  3d  ed.  London,  1742.  8vo. 

Manuscript  notes  on  fly-leaf. 

Water  land,   Daniel,  D.D.,  Archdeacon   of 

Middlesex. 

The  Dodrinal  Use  of  the  Christian  Sacraments 
Considered  in  a  Charge  Delivered  to  the  Mid- 
dlesex Clergy,  May  12, 1736.  London,  1736.  8vo. 

Other  Trads  in  this  volume  are: 

The  Christian  Sacrifice  explained,  in  a  Charge  ...  to  the 
<iM'iddlesex  Clergv  .  .  .  April  the  20^*^,  1738.  To  which  is 
added  an  Appendix.  Londoiiy  1738.  8vo. 

The  Sacramental  Part  of  the  Eucharist  explain' d  in  a  Charge 
...  to  the  Clergy  o{ zMtddiesex,  at  the  ^^j/^r- Visitation,  1739. 
London^  1739.  8vo. 

Distindlions 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Host  on  yg 

Distinftions  of  Sacrifice  :  Set  forth  in  a  Charge  ...  to  the 
QXtx^y  oi zy^Xiddlesex  at  the  -fi'tfi/^r- Visitation,  1740.  London y 
1740.  8vo. 

Advice  to  a  Young  Student  with  a  Method  of  Study  for  the 
Four  First  Years.  3d  ed.  Cambridge^  1740.  8vo. 

HDate  on  title-page  printed  MDCCLX.  probably  by  error. 

...  A  Sermon  occasion' d  by  the  Death  of  Dr.  Waterland, 
.  .  .  Preached  in  Tir^ /V/^*?;;/^^;^- Chapel,  January  the  4**^,  1740—1, 
by  Jeremiah  Speedy  M.A.  London ^  1741.  8vo. 

H  Contents  in  manuscript  on  inside  cover. 

Water  land ^  Daniel,  D.D. 

The  Importance  of  the  Dodlrine  of  the  Holy 

Trinity  Asserted.  London^  I734«  8vo. 

Water  land,  Daniel,  D.D. 
A  Review  of  the  Dodrine  of  the  Eucharist,  as 
laid  down  in  Scripture  and  Antiquity.  Cambridge^ 
1737.  8vo. 

Waterland,  Daniel,  D.D.,  Master  of  3V[ag- 
dalen-CoWtge,  Cambridge. 

A  Vindication  of  Christ's  Divinity  :  beinga  De- 
fense of  some  Queries,  relating  to  Dr.  Clarke's 
Scheme  of  the  Holy  Trinity.  3d  ed.  Cambridge, 
1720.  8vo. 

W his  ton,  William,  M.A. 

An  Historical  Preface  to  Primitive  Christianity 
reviv'd.  With  an  Appendix  containing  an  Ac- 
count of  the  Author's  Prosecution  at,  and  Ban- 
ishment 


8o  The  Parochial  Library 

ishment  from  the  University  of  Cambridge.  Lon- 
don^ 171 1.  Sm.  8vo. 

Whitejield^  Qeorge, 

A  Continuation  of  the  Reverend  Mr.  Whitefield's 
Journal  after  his  Arrival  at  Qeorgia^  to  a  few  Days 
after  his  second  Return  thither  from  Thiladelphia. 
London,  i74i'  8vo. 

Other  Trads  in  this  volume  are: 

A  Contmuation  of  the  Reverend  Mr.  WhitefieW s  Journal, 
from  a  few  Days  after  his  Return  to  Qeorgia  to  his  Arrival  at 
FalmouLhy  on  the  i  ith  of  March,  1741.  The  Seventh  Journal. 
LojidoTiy  1 74 1.  8vo. 

An  Account  of  Money  Received  and  Disbursed  for  the 
Orphan-House  in  Qeorgia.  London y  1741.  8vo. 

Copy  of  a  Letter  from  Mr.  William  Seward  in  Answer  to 
a  Letter  sent  him  by  his  Brother  the  Rev.  Mr.  Thomas  Seward. 
[n.d.]  8vo. 

A  Modest  and  Serious  Defence  of  the  Author  of  the  Whole 
Duty  of  Man,  from  the  false  Charges  ...  of  Mr.  Whitefield 
.  .  .  by  a  Presbyter  of  the  Church  of  England.  2d  ed.  London ^ 
1740.  8vo. 

An  Extraft  of  Sundry  Passages  taken  out  of  Mr.  Whitefield'' s 
printed  Sermons,  Journals  and  Letters  .  .  .  ^Philadelphia,  1740. 
Reprinted  London,  1741.  8vo. 

A  Letter  to  the  Reverend  Mr.  John  Wesley  ...  by  Qeorge 
Whit  e fie  Id y  A.B.  London,  1741.  8vo. 

A  Comparison  between  the  Doftrines  taught  by  the  Clergy 
of  the  Church  oi  England y  and  the  Dodlrines  taught  by  White- 
fieldy  Seagravey  and  others.  Londony  1741.  8vo. 

A  Letter  to  the  Reverend  Mr.  Whitefieldy  ...  by  a  Gentle- 
man of  y^w^^r^i^- College,  Oxon.  Londony  i  744.  8vo. 


in  Qhrist  Churchy  Boston  8i 

A  New-Year's  Gift  for  the  %^tcliff  Convert  to  ^Muggle- 
tonianism  ...  by  y.  Sharpe,  A.M.  zded.  Londoriy  1717.  8vo. 

The  Rise  and  Growth  of  Fanaticism,  or  a  View  of  the  Prin- 
ciples, Plots,  and  pernicious  Praftices  of  the  Dissenters  .  .  . 
London y  171  5.  8vo. 

Primitive  Infant-Baptism  Reviv'd,  or  an  Account  of  the  Doc- 
trine and  Praftice  of  the  Two  First  Centuries,  Concerning  the 
Baptism  of  Infants  ...  by  William  Whiston,  M.A.  London y 
1712.  8vo. 

H  Contents  in  manuscript  on  inside  cover.  At  end  of  volume 
an  **  Advertisement  concerning  the  Longitude,"  signed  Hum- 
phrey Ditton. 

Wilkins^  yohn^  Lord  Bishop  of  Chester, 
Of  the  Principles  and  Duties  of  Natural  Reli- 
gion: two  books.  To  which  is  added,  a  Sermon 
Preached  at  his  Funerals,  by /F/7//^;?2  L^jy^jD.D., 
Dean  o^ 'Bangor.  London^  1678.  8vo. 

Engraved  portrait  by  '7^  White.  Autograph  on  inside  cover : 
<iA.  Stanhope. 

Williams^  John.,  Lord  Bishop  of  Chichester. 
Twelve  Sermons  Preach'd  at  the  Ledure  founded 
by  %^bert  "Boyle^  Esq. ;  concerning  The  Possibil- 
ity, Necessity,  and  Certainty  of  Divine  Revela- 
tion. The  second  edition.  To  which  are  added. 
Three  Sermons  .  .  .  not  before  printed.  London^ 
1708.  8vo. 

Autograph  on  fly-leaf:  J.  Tidcombe, 


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